‎Roosevelt franklin delano‎

‎Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎War Cartoons‎

‎New York: Century Co 1917. Signed Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine condition./Very good condition. The slipcase is worn and soiled. Louis Raemaker. Two Volumes. Century Co unknown‎

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‎Foster, David; Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; Seneca; Harris, William C(ed)‎

‎The Scientific Angler. Being a General and Instructive Work on Artistic Angling‎

‎New York: Orange Judd Company 1883. Hardcover. Very good condition. Three volumes bound in one titled as above and: 2nd vol.; 'Superior Fishing; or the Striped Bass Trout Black Bass and Blue Fish of the Northern States' published 1884; 3rd vol.; 'The Game Fish of the Northern States and British Provinces' published 1884. With 'Canoe and Camp Cookery for Canoeists Corinthian Sailors and Outers' published 1885 at the back. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo brown leather and buckram boards gilt title on spine. Vol. 1 247pp; vol. 2 349pp vol. 3 324pp; Canoe 96pp. Leather rubbed at edges internally clean throughout. Orange Judd Company hardcover‎

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‎Frank Anne; Mooyaart Doubleday B. M.; Roosevelt Eleanor; Stevens George‎

‎The Diary of a Young Girl‎

‎New York: Pocket Book 1964. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Wrappers lightly soiled ink name on blurb page and on rear wrapper recto. 1964 Mass Market Paperback. 237 pp. The heartbreaking memoirs of a young girl trapped with her family in an attic during WWII. Pocket Book paperback books‎

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‎Frank Roosevelt/ David Belkin‎

‎Why Market Socialism: Voices from Dissent‎

‎M E Sharpe Inc 1994. Paperback. New. 392 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.50 inches. M E Sharpe Inc paperback‎

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‎Frank Roosevelt‎

‎Why Market Socialism: Voices from Dissent‎

‎Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A collection of essays on market socialism originally published in "Dissent" between 1985 and 1993. Among other topics they take issue with the traditional view that socialism means rejecting the use of markets to organise economic ac hardcover‎

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‎Frank Roosevelt; David Belkin‎

‎Why Market Socialism Voices from Dissent‎

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‎Frank Roosevelt‎

‎Why Market Socialism Voices from Dissent‎

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‎Frank Roosevelt‎

‎Why Market Socialism: Voices from Dissent: Voices from Dissent‎

‎Hardback. New. A collection of essays on market socialism originally published in "Dissent" between 1985 and 1993. Among other topics they take issue with the traditional view that socialism means rejecting the use of markets to organise economic activities and question the reliance upon markets. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : A9781563244650 ISBN : 1563244659 9781563244650

‎FRANK, Anne Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt‎

‎Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl‎

‎Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company 1952. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 285. Translated from the Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Top edge dyed brown. Black cloth with spine lettered in silver. In the dust jacket with $3.00 price present fading to spine panel short closed tear with crease top edge front panel. In the first New York Times review of the diary 1952 Meyer Levin had the prescience to write "Anne Frank's diary is too tenderly intimate a book to be frozen with the label 'classic' and yet no lesser designation serves." That assessment holds today.<p>Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve. Doubleday & Company hardcover‎

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‎Frank, Anne; Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt‎

‎ANNE FRANK: The Diary of a Young Girl‎

‎Doubleday & Company Inc. First American edition with photographs of the "Achterhuis" on the inside of the binding. Early 1952 printing in deep black cloth with bright silver gilded lettering on the spine that has 1952 on both the copyright page and the title page. DJ in archival cover price clipped light wear. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1952. Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover‎

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‎Frank, Anne; Mooyaart, B M [Translator]; Roosevelt, Eleanor [Introduction];‎

‎The Diary of a Young Girl‎

‎Perfection Learning 1993-06-01. Library Binding. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Perfection Learning unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : Q-0812415086 ISBN : 0812415086 9780812415087

‎Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Donald Scott Carmichael‎

‎A Introduction to The Log of the Larooco. Being Chiefly the Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt and John S Lawrence‎

‎Gates Mills Ohio: Donald Scott Carmichael 1949. Soft cover. Fine. pp37 FDR's record of "the salt-water wanderings of a houseboat jointly owned and operated in 1923 to 1926 with his old friend John Lawrence" with an introduction by Donald Scott Carmichael. One of fifteen copies reprinted from The Franklin D Roosevelt Collector VolI No 1 November 1948 bound for the author to distribute to certain FDR enthusiasts. A very attractive limited edition printed on high quality paper fine in blue paper wrappers. Inscribed by Carmichael with laid in letter 1 TLS from Carmichael to Frederick Adams. This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr 1910 - 2001 the son of Ellen Walters Delano who was a first cousin to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Adams became a passionate bibliophile who served as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for two decades and compiled a significant personal collection relating to F.D.R. In 1969 he married his third wife who was a Swedish princess and with whom he shared the final years of his life in France. Adams' move to France explains the presence of his books in the United Kingdom. Fine 1949 Donald Scott Carmichael paperback‎

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‎Franklin D ROOSEVELT‎

‎Address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on The War Crisis June 10th 1940.‎

‎John Valentine January 1950. Paper Back. Very Good. 12mo in printed wraps. A Near Fine copy with just the slightest bit of rubbing at the corners. John Valentine unknown‎

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‎Franklin Delano Roosevelt‎

‎economic issues shall be kept to the forefront in the coming campaign." <br />A 29 June 1931 typed letter on gubernatorial stationery signed and marked "Personal" by then-New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to a future Democratic Congressman offering a snapshot of the diligent political work that helped FDR secure the Democratic nomination for president almost exactly one year after he signed this letter‎

‎Albany New York 1931. Letter. This 29 June 1931 typed letter is signed and marked “Personal” by then New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to a future Democratic congressman on his gubernatorial stationery. The letter offers a snapshot of the diligent work behind the seemingly providential arc that propelled FDR to the White House and eventually saw him become America’s longest-serving president. <br /> <br />The letter is addressed to a “Mr. William Thom” of “Canton Ohio” above whose name and address FDR wrote and underlined “Personal”. FDR thanks Thom for “enclosing the clipping in regard to the vote of the Jackson Club of Canton.” FDR tells Thom “It is gratifying to learn that I have so many staunch friends in your Club and I appreciate the expression of confidence in which they voted recently. I am also delighted to see that the Club is determined that economic issues shall be kept to the forefront in the coming campaign. If we do not allow ourselves to be diverted and press home the fact that the present industrial depression is directly the result of the policies of the present administration I feel that victory will be assured.” After the valediction FDR signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt”. Writing and emphasizing “Personal” was just the sort of deft touch that built a sense of camaraderie and loyalty. The exhortation “economic issues shall be kept to the forefront in the coming campaign” was just the sort of message discipline that winning candidates for office needed to command. <br /> <br />Condition of the letter is very good clean and complete though age-toned to the perimeter and with three horizontal folds ostensibly from original posting. The letter is housed in a clear removable archival mylar sleeve housed within a rigid crimson cloth folder. <br /> <br />The recipient William Richard Thom 1885-1960 was an Ohio lawyer and Democratic politician who would serve three non-consecutive stints in Congress. The same election that brought Roosevelt to the White House brought Thom to Congress where he was sworn in the same day FDR took the presidential oath of office. Thom served from 4 March 1933 – 3 January 1939. Thom lost his 1938 re-election bid returned to Congress for his final term in the same 1944 election that won FDR an unprecedented fourth term. Unlike FDR Thom lived out his final term serving 3 January 1945 to 3 January 1947. <br /> <br />In 1921 FDR’s promising political career was abruptly derailed by an illness that resulted in lifelong paralysis of his legs. When New York Governor Al Smith became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in June 1928 Democrats had to choose a new candidate for governor of New York. It was not FDR. Death ill health and failure to attract broad support sidelined various candidates. A month before the November 1928 election the Democrats still lacked a candidate. Recruited by Smith a hesitant FDR agreed to run only just before he was formally nominated. He barely won with less than 50% of the votes cast and little over half a percent more than his opponent. <br /> <br />Yet four eventful years later national economic crisis brought FDR to the White House. FDR’s governorship coincided with the onset of the Great Depression. “More quickly than most other political leaders he concluded that the economy would not recover on its own and ‘that there is a duty on the part of government to do something about this.’” <br /> <br />Roosevelt and his political team labored to accumulate pledges from Democratic Party delegates throughout the country. FDR secured the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago almost exactly a year after he signed this letter. He appeared in person to accept the nomination –the first Democratic candidate ever to do so. In his speech to the delegates he pledged “a new deal for the American people.” After they were both sworn in on 4 March 1933 – FDR to the presidency Thom to the House of Representatives – both men were in a position to support and implement New Deal policies. <br /> <br />Sources: ANB <br/><br/> unknown‎

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‎Franklin Delano Roosevelt‎

‎F.D.R.: His Personal Letters Early Years‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : B9781498122979 ISBN : 1498122973 9781498122979

‎Franklin D, And Buhite, Russell D (Volume Editor), And Levy, David W (Volume Editor) Roosevelt‎

‎FDR's Fireside Chats Oklahoma Western Biographies; 4‎

‎Looks like this book has never been read; pages are perfect; retired library book with the usual markings and light shelf wear on dust cover.<br /><br /><p>On thirty-one occasions during his presidency Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on the radio to talk things over with the people of the United States. Those fireside chats characterized by a disarming frankness and an informal and conversational tone represent an unprecedented presidential attempt to achieve intimacy with the nation. The American people listened gathered around their radios in living rooms and kitchens across the country as President Roosevelt discussed virtually every major problem facing the United States at home and abroad―including both the gravest domestic struggle since the Civil War and perhaps the most serious foreign crisis in the nation's history. In the fireside chats the president touched upon all of the issues surrounding the depression and the New Deal and upon the events fears and hopes that were part of the American experience of World War II.</p> <p>Editors Russell D. Buhite and David W. Levy have gather the fireside chats tighter for the first time in a single volume and by careful attention to recordings and stenographic reports present the speeches exactly as Roosevelt spoke them. A general introduction discusses the importance of Roosevelt in American political history the rise of the radio as a political tool and the way Roosevelt aided by speech writers and advisers prepared and delivered the chat. Issues of the day are explored in two additional introductory essays―one describing the domestic situation Roosevelt confronted as he entered the White House in March 1933; the other surveying the international scene during the late 1930s when Hitler Mussolini and Japanese militarists propelled the world toward a catastrophic war.</p> <p>To read the fireside chats a half century after they were delivered is to reenter a world of economic disaster social reform and international danger. It is also to hear once again the voice of one of the most skilled speakers and trusted leaders in American history.</p> University Of Oklahoma Press hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : mfh203 bsgw 000494 1575jh ISBN : 0806123702 9780806123707

‎FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT SUPREME COURT‎

‎First Edition of FDR’s Committee for Civil Service Improvement Report Signed by Three Supreme Court Justices‎

‎Washington D.C. 1941. Hardcover. Fine. Signed Book. Report of President's Committee on Civil Service Improvement. Washington D.C. This presentation copy to William H. McReynolds the Liaison Officer for Personnel Management is signed by all the committee members including the chairman Justice Stanley Reed Justice Felix Frankfurter Justice Frank Murphy Attorney General Robert H. Jackson Leonard D. White General Robert E. Wood and Cooper Union President Gano Dunn. Historical BackgroundOn June 24 1938 President Roosevelt extended the Civil Service Act of 1883 to approximately 24000 higher-level positions. While most positions were quickly reorganized within the Civil Service roughly 5000 positions required a more complex transition. Officially classified as professional scientific or otherwise specially-skilled jobs most were attorney positions. To facilitate the attorneys' smooth shift into the Civil Service Roosevelt issued a second order at the beginning of 1939 that postponed the application of the earlier order and created a special committee to ""make a comprehensive study of methods of recruiting testing selecting promoting transferring removing and reinstating personnel."" The Committee on Civil Service Improvement after several intensive meetings produced this report which offered extensive recommendations for integrating legal engineering architectural natural science administration and social science positions into the Civil Service.Committee members included Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed Felix Frankfurter and Frank Murphy; Attorney General and future Justice Robert H. Jackson; the President's Administrative Assistant and Liaison Officer for Personnel Management William H. McReynolds; public administration expert Leonard D. White; Sears Roebuck executive and U.S. General Robert E. Wood; and electrical engineer and Cooper Union President Gano Dunn. All eight committee members approved the report by signing on a sheet bound in after the free front endpapers.The Library of Congress has a photograph of the members of this committee taken as they began open hearings at the Supreme Court Building on November 1 1939. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009014264/ConditionNear Fine. Minor rubbing to corners. Presentation copy in contemporary burgundy morocco gilt. hardcover‎

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‎Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR‎

‎Franklin Delano Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed ALS RARE FDR‎

‎New York 1928. Very Good. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945 typewritten personal letter possibly secretarial signed on private letterhead dated October 17 1928. Letter is written to George A. Essex of Chelsea Oklahoma and contains references to Roosevelt's political philosophy. This letter was penned prior to Roosevelt's election as the 32nd President of the United States. The letter encourages Mr. Essex to support New York Governor Al Smith in his candidacy for president in opposition of Herbert Hoover. The contents of the letter are as follows: My dear Sir:I have not heard what decision you have made as between the two Presidential candidates but remembering your firm belief in the policies and ideals of Woodrow Wilson I am encouraged to hope that you have decided as I have decided - that under Governor Smith our country stands far more chance of returning to the path blazed out for us by our greatest President than under the materialistic and self-seeking advisers who surround the other candidate; men whose influence has already made it manifest that high ideals and a forward-looking policy - not only for this country but for the world - would stand as little chance under Mr. Hoover as they have stood under President Harding President Coolidge and Mr. Mellon. To me the contemptuous casting aside of all of President Wilson's wonderful dreams of a better world and the substitution of crass materialism and a dollar-and-cents viewpoint of everything has been a world tragedy. I know Governor Smith and I know that in his own way his interest in humanity his intolerance of the oppression of the weak and his desire to help those handicapped by circumstances has led him to the same belief as to what our country's attitude should be and as to how its course should be guided as animated President Wilson. I would deeply appreciate it if you would write me confidentially what you have decided addressing the letter to my house 49 East 65th Street New York City. Yours very truly Franklin D. Roosevelt". The letter is in very good condition. Measures 10-1/2" x 7-1/4". Slight toning with a small chip missing at the top left corner. Small spot on the verso of the letter.Please view the many other rare titles and collectibles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #E1-50. unknown‎

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‎FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT‎

‎Franklin Delano Roosevelt Criticizes Thomas Paine on Opposing George Washington‎

‎<p><b>FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT.</b>Typed Letter Signed as President to Frederic A. Delano. Washington D.C. August 25 1942 1 p. 7 x 9 in. On White House stationery. </p><b>Complete Transcript</b><p><i>Dear Uncle Fred:- Many thanks for sending me that clipping about Tom Paine. I too have always had a keen interest in him. His principal mistake lay in his rather violent opposition to Washington in the campaign of 1792</i>. sic 1796.</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Franklin Delano Roosevelt thanks his Uncle Fred his mother's brother for sending an article on Thomas Paine a Revolutionary figure in whom the president had <i>"a keen interest." </i>However FDR was mistaken in his reference to Paine's opposition to Washington in the presidential campaign of 1792. There was no campaign in 1792; Washington ran unopposed and was unanimously reelected. Paine's opposition came in 1796 after two parties had formed: the Federalists and the anti-Federalists the nascent Democratic - Republican party. </p><p>In 1792 Paine and Washington were on good terms as evidenced by a series of correspondence between the two. In 1791 Paine dedicated the first part of his "<i>Rights of Man</i>" to Washington and President Washington wrote Paine on May 6 1792 "<i>My thanks for the token of your remembrance in the 50 copies of 'Rights of Man' … I rejoice in the information of your personal prosperity</i>…"</p><p>While in Paris in 1793 Paine a naturalized American citizen since 1774 was arrested and imprisoned. On Sept. 20 1795 Paine wrote Washington hoping that the president could affect his release. "<i>After you were informed of my imprisonment in France it was incumbent on you to have made some enquiry into the cause."</i> Paine concluded.<i>"I cannot understand your silence upon this subject.I shall continue to think you treacherous till you give me cause to think otherwise</i>." During the campaign of 1796 Paine again wrote Washington on July 30 1796 "<i>I also declare myself opposed to almost the whole of your administration; for I know it to have been deceitful if not perfidious.</i>" Paine then published his letter cementing the acrimony between him and Washington and by extension John Adams the Federalist candidate in 1796.</p>‎

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‎FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT‎

‎Franklin Roosevelt Thanks Alabama Friend for Compliments on “Forgotten Man†Speech‎

‎<p><b>FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.</b>Typed Letter Signed as Governor to Samuel H. Tatum April 14 1932 Albany New York. 1 p. 8 x 10½ in. </p><br /><p><b>Complete Transcript</b></p><p> <i>STATE OF NEW YORK</i></p><p> <i>EXECUTIVE CHAMBER</i></p><p> <i>ALBANY</i></p><p><i>FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT</i></p><p><i>GOVERNOR</i></p><p> <i>April 14 1932.</i></p><p><i>Mr. S. H. Tatum</i></p><p><i>Roanoke / Alabama.</i></p><p><i>Dear Mr. Tatum:</i></p><p> <i>Thank you for your nice note of April 11th. I am delighted to know that you so thoroughly enjoyed my radio talk.</i></p><p> <i>I am leaving here the 23rd of April for Warm Springs but will stop off on my way down at Richmond Virginia to attend the Governors' Conference. However I expect to be in Warm Springs the first part of May and I shall hope to see you all again.</i></p><p> <i>Very sincerely yours</i></p><p> <i>Franklin D. Roosevelt</i></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>On April 7 1932 Roosevelt delivered his "Forgotten Man" speech at Albany which was broadcast via radio to the people of New York State. "These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten" Roosevelt said "the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power for plans like those of 1917 that build from the bottom up and not from the top down that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid." Roosevelt appealed to the "little fellow" among his hearers and readers "Here should be an objective of Government itself to provide at least as much assistance to the little fellow as it is now giving to the large banks and corporations." Roosevelt concluded "It is high time to get back to fundamentals. It is high time to admit with courage that we are in the midst of an emergency at least equal to that of war. Let us mobilize to meet it."</p><p>The "forgotten man" image captured the public imagination and became a hallmark of Roosevelt's successful 1932 campaign for the Democratic nomination over Alfred E. Smith and for the Presidency over incumbent Herbert Hoover. In 1930 Tatum did not own a radio so it is likely that he read Roosevelt's speech in a newspaper many of which summarized or printed the speech.Roosevelt went on to receive the Democratic nomination in July and win the general election in November with an overwhelming 57 percent of the popular vote and a 472-59 win in the electoral college.</p><p>On his way to Georgia Roosevelt attended the annual Governors' Conference held in Richmond Virginia from April 25 to 27. Hosted by Governor John G. Pollard of Virginia the conference welcomed twenty-seven governors and included visits to Charlottesville Williamsburg Fredericksburg and Alexandria. During the sessions Governor Louis L. Emmerson of Illinois delivered an address on the "Duty of the State in Relieving Unemployment" a subject of interest to all governors in the midst of the Great Depression. The conference also included a dinner at the White House on April 27 hosted by President Herbert Hoover. Hoover kept the governors waiting for half an hour after they arrived much to the annoyance and discomfort of Roosevelt who was wearing metal leg braces. Roosevelt nursed the grievance for years.</p><p>Roosevelt had written to Tatum from Warm Springs Georgia in December 1931 thanking him for an editorial and asking that he come over again the following April when Roosevelt returned. Roanoke Alabama is approximately fifty miles west of Warm Springs.</p><p><b>Samuel H. Tatum</b> 1879-1966 was born in Alabama and was a farm laborer in 1900. He married Parrie Zachry in 1907 and was a merchant in Roanoke Alabama from the 1910s to the 1930s. He served as postmaster of Roanoke Alabama from June 1934 to October 1935 when he was removed from office. In the late 1930s he moved to Auburn Alabama where he was a salesman in an automobile company in 1940.</p>‎

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‎Franklin Delano Roosevelt‎

‎Great Speeches Dover Thrift Editions‎

‎Dover Publications 1999-05-14. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dover Publications paperback‎

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‎Franklin D Roosevelt‎

‎Huge Imposing Signed Portrait Photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt Early in His Term as President‎

‎1/4/33. <p>Oversize imposing 13 by 16 inch portrait <strong>photograph</strong> of FDR near the start of his term as president as he launched the New Deal seated at his desk with letter in hand <strong>signed</strong> and inscribed in fountain pen <em>“To Robert Livingston Bailey from Franklin D. Roosevelt.""</em></p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown‎

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‎Franklin Delano Roosevelt‎

‎Looking Forward one of no more than 10 surviving copies of the uncorrected Advance Review Copy‎

‎New York: The John Day Company 1933. Advance Review Copy of the First Edition. Wraps. One of no more than 10 copies thus this is the extravagantly rare uncorrected Advance Review issue of Looking Forward a compilation of articles and speeches prepared for publication concurrent with the first presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. <br /> <br />Looking Forward dates from Roosevelt’s heady ascendance to the nation’s highest office released on 20 March 1933 sixteen days after FDR’s first inauguration as America’s 32nd President. America was in dire economic crisis. Most observers had interpreted FDR’s victory “less as a mandate for Roosevelt whose plans remained largely unknown to the public than as a repudiation of Hoover". Many skeptics still shared Walter Lippmann’s famously dismissive view of Roosevelt as “a pleasant man who without any important qualifications for the office would very much like to be president.” In the context of these volatile unknowns FDR swiftly prepared Looking Forward which he introduced as “essentially a compilation from many articles written and speeches made prior to March 1 1933” adding “parts which bind the material together as a whole.” Even this introduction by FDR dated “Hyde Park March 1 1933” was overcome by events; the last chapter in the book is President Roosevelt’s 4 March 1933 first inaugural address. Given the haste and exigencies attending publication it is not surprising that there were a host of errors. <br /> <br />On March 10 1933 130 copies bound in wrappers were mailed to reviewers. The following day a number of errors in the text were discovered and at FDR’s direction the recipients were asked to return the books for correction. As a result “about 120 were received by the publisher in answer.” Errors and corrections proved extensive. Returned and recirculated Advance Review copies had the pp. 141-42 leaf replaced and other deletions made in India ink. By the time the first trade issue was released on 20 March 1933 seven leaves were re-set to accommodate corrections including the final page of the inaugural address. <br /> <br />Here is one of the approximately ten Advance Review copies that were not returned and hence not corrected – the earliest publication of the first book of FDR’s presidency. <br /> <br />Condition is very good indeed. The fragile wraps binding is square tight and surprisingly clean. The spine shows no vertical creasing indicating it remains unread and all of the extensive spine print remains clearly legible. Trivial loss is confined to fore edges where they overhang the text block to the rear corners and to the extremities of the front joint. The red and blue print remains bright. The contents are bright with no spotting and no previous ownership marks the text block edges lightly soiled the initial and terminal leaves a little dog-eared. <br /> <br />In 1921 FDR’s promising political career was abruptly derailed by Polio resulting in lifelong paralysis of his legs. The expectation was that he would be reduced to “a gentleman invalid”. Instead “the ordeal… made him more serious and determined and gradually he transferred his steely resolve away from his efforts to walk and toward an attempt to rescue a public career.” The miscalculations and misfortunes of New York’s Democratic Governor Al Smith became FDR’s catalyst. <br /> <br />At the 1924 and 1928 Democratic conventions Roosevelt took to the podium – a considerable triumph of physical will – to place Smith’s name in nomination for the presidency. A month before the November 1928 election the Democrats still lacked a candidate to replace Smith as governor of New York. Recruited late by Smith a hesitant FDR agreed to run only just before he was formally nominated. Smith was trounced but FDR narrowly won. Four year later FDR won the White House having swiftly occupied both the office that Smith had relinquished and the office to which he had aspired beating the rival to whom Smith had lost. <br /> <br />References: ANB; Halter pp.108-109; The Colophon Spring 1936 No. 4 Vol. 1 pp.487-492 <br/><br/> The John Day Company paperback‎

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‎Franklin D Roosevelt‎

‎LOOKING FORWARD‎

‎New York: The John Day Company 1933. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Light toning on spine. Light bumping and spine crown and heel. Light foxing on bottom text block edge.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The John Day Company hardcover‎

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‎Franklin D Roosevelt‎

‎Nothing to Fear: The Selected Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1932-1945‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : A9781258897833 ISBN : 1258897830 9781258897833