Men of Stress: Three Dynamic Interpretations, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Carnegie, William Hesketh Lever
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First edition, first printing. 374pp, with occasional black and white plate illustrations. In bright blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. 8vo. Boards gently rubbed at corners and spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original edge worn dust jacket, with small flap at head of a lightly sunned spine. Dust jacket protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A book of intimate biography of three dynamic men who were divided against themselves. Woodrow Wilson, the idealist, defeated by his own limitations; Andrew Carnegie, who made a hundred million pounds in cut-throat competition in the steel trade; and Leverhulme, the aggressive businessman who dreamed of industrial peace and beautiful cities. Very hard to find title.