Charles Gates Dawes: A Life By Annette B. Dunlap

Abstract

Like a character in a Herman Wouk novel, Charles Gates Dawes (1865– 1951) spent the majority of his adult life thriving in the midst of the action while in the service of his country. For a long time, he has deserved a good biography—the only previous study of any note is Bascom Timmons’s breezy 1953 tome published soon after Dawes’s death— and finally a worthy treatment has appeared. Annette B. Dunlap, an independent scholar who was contacted by the Evanston History Center to write Dawes’s biography, had previously crafted a history of First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland.