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Tall, heavy, clean-shaven, jowly, with little green eyes, big ears, big nose, petulant mouth, John Wanamaker's expression was called "cherubic—at times." Weak as a boy, he lived to be 84; though he took little exercise after he was 45, one day when he was 80 he caught 148 fish. In national politics an unfailing Republican, in local politics he was an independent. "His farewell handshake was courtesy and geniality itself, at the same time it was a gentle push toward the door."
This is the second biography of Wanamaker which Author Appel, his 30-year employe, has written. The first was John Wanamaker, a Study.