National Affairs: Alger

It is not recorded whether it was as a parallel to the Alger style of title (From Postman to President) that William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson, has written his recollections under the title: From Congress to Cabinet. According to a blurb of The Outlook:

"Mr. Redfield has selected The Outlook as the periodical for which to write his impressions of distinguished men and momentous events during the World War. He has compressed his impressions into ten articles."

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