FISHER, Irving.

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The Nature of Capital and Income. First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To H. L. S. from I. F. Xmas, 1906", almost certainly to Fisher's friend and rival, the US Secretary of State and of War, Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950).In Stimson's long career of public service, he served as Secretary of War under President Taft from 1911 to 1913, as Secretary of State from 1929 to 1933 under President Hoover, and as Secretary of War again from 1940 to 1945, the whole period of US involvement in the Second World War, under both Roosevelt and Truman. Fisher became friends with Stimson while the pair were classmates at Yale. Stimson "was to be his friend as well as competitor, not only in their Yale days, but also throughout their lives"; they corresponded for decades, and Stimson was the only member of their Yale class to attend Fisher's funeral (Allen, pp. 31, 293). Despite his high positions, Stimson does not seem to have made efforts to aid his friend's career and influence. Fisher's biographer Allen speculates Stimson may have impeded Fisher being awarded the secretaryship of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, a position Fisher actively campaigned for in 1906 (ibid., p. 97) While Stimson was Secretary of War under Roosevelt, Allen records Fisher "accelerated his correspondence" with Stimson - "Fisher wanted to promote prohibition on army posts, but he could not interest the military in his ideas. He was also promoti

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