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1928 · 145741 — New York: The Grafton Press 1928. First edition of this biography of American statesman Republican politician and Secretary of State James G. Blaine from the observations of his private secretary; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo original cloth frontispiece portrait of James G. Blaine illustrated with black and white photographs. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. In near fine condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York specializing in labor and insurance and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece Eleanor Sherman Fitch the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter Maria “Minnie†Ewing Sherman Fitch before he died. Until now the book was held at the family estate in Washington County Pennsylvania. James Gillespie Blaine was was a prominent American politician who served twice as Secretary of State. He began his political career as an early supporter of Republican Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort in the American Civil War and was a supporter of black suffrage during Reconstruction. As Secretary of State Blaine was a transitional figure marking the end of an isolationist era in foreign policy and foreshadowing the rise of the American Century that would begin with the Spanish–American War. The Grafton Press hardcover