The reminiscences of James W. Wadsworth

by James Wolcott Wadsworth, Owen W. Bombard, Wendell H. Link, Dean Albertson, Columbia University. Oral History Research Office

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Senator, congressman. Topics include: childhood and education; rural life in upstate New York; New York State Assembly, 1905-10; New York politics, 1910-15; United States Senate, 1915-27; Republican National Convention, 1916; World War I; Newton Baker; European travel; League of Nations and Senate debate; Warren Harding era; 1920 National Defense Act; Prohibition; United States House of Representatives, 1933-45; vignettes of political contemporaries.