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Hardcover. Zustand: Good Plus. Octavo, 8 in. x 5.25 in., pp. xii, 807. Illustrated with photographic frontis of the author and 20 additional black and white photographic plates. Ivy green cloth boards with gilt title and double horizontal line to front; gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities with small white stain to front board. Previous owner's name and address in pencil, dated 1913, to front free pastedown. Finger-tip sized open tear to top of title page. Previous owner Chester Versteeg (1887-1963) was a Los Angeles-based insurance broker, Sierra Club officer, researcher, and author. Credited with beginning the work of Wisconsin's progressive movement, ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, SR. was born in Primrose, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, where he attended one term of law school before entering the law office of R. M. Bashford in Madison. He was elected District Attorney of Dane County in 1880, and in 1884 he won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives that he held until the Democratic landslide of 1890. Elected to three terms as governor beginning in 1900, one of his key accomplishments was the "Wisconsin Idea," which involved used expert help from the state university to prepare legislation and administer regulatory agencies. (from National Governors Asssociation).