Progressive Republican Cutting (1888-1935), published the Santa Fe New Mexican, served in WWI, returned to New Mexico where he became involved in politics, and in 1927 was appointed to fill the unexpired term of the recently deceased senior US senator. Cutting is perhaps best known as the most prominent Anglo who sought in the period prior to the New Deal to bring Hispanic voters into the political mainstream. Lowitt's biography is a study of both Cutting and of early 20th- century New Mexico and US politics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR