ROOSEVELT, Franklin D
THE HAPPY WARRIOR. ALFRED E. SMITH. A Study of a Public Servant
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York: 1928
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Cloth in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the future President on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Garrett A Roach/with all good wishes from/Franklin D. Roosevelt/October 31 1928." Below his inscription his son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. has also INSCRIBED and SIGNED the book "To Albert A. Roach/With best wishes,/Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr." with the date "1-29-49" below in another hand. In his foreword, Roosevelt states: "It is difficult, in the tumult of a political campaign, to set forth facts without bias, but I have tried, in the first part of this little book, to analyze fairly some of the causes that make Alfred E. Smith one of the most interesting Americans of this generation. In no way is this written as a partisan plea. The excuse lies in the deluge of letters coming to me from men and women in every circumstance of life, and from every part of the United States, asking every conceivable kind of question about him." Alas, Smith lost to Herbert Hoover in a landslide a few months later, and the following year the longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy occurred: The Great Depression. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with edgewear and a closed split along the spine crease
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