"Franklin D. Roosevelt: Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conference, and Letters" Edited by Basil Rauch — Leather-bound, gilt-edged Easton Press edition

Full title: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conference, and Letters Edited by Basil Rauch. Published in Norwalk, Connecticut by The Easton Press. Collector's edition.

From the insert:

"Collector's Notes

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conferences and Letters

Edited by Basil Rauch

The Writings of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945
32nd President of the United States, 1933-1945

"Anyone who has no direct, personal recollection of Franklin Roosevelt and the tumultuous era in which he dominated is in for a treat with this extraordinary collection of Presidential papers. As for those who lived during the Roosevelt years, there's plenty to evoke memories of the special thrill and excitement attached to "that man in the White House."

"For a President to foresee in ordinary times the approach of crisis and take... measures to avert it is deeply irritating to the American people. Our unwillingness to submit to strong leadership... gives our political history its odd tone of extreme alternations between passive utopia and creative hellfire." In Basil Rauch's words, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave us "creative hellfire." His were supreme acts of leadership. He foresaw the likelihood of depression and the danger of another world war long before others even suspected it. Although his warnings fell on deaf, sometimes hostile, ears, when the day of reckoning came, Americans turned to F.D.R. for leadership.

"Here in the written evidences of his remarkable life, F.D.R. demonstrates that he relished leadership, and his enthusiasm comes through clearly. "The people of the United States... have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it." With such stirring words Roosevelt rallied the nation.

Throughout his papers, Roosevelt's development into a champion of the common man can be clearly traced. Oddly enough, he never seemed"

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