Man Roosevelt, Signed (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. With Photographs (illustrator). NF/NF-. Bright and attractive hardcover with dust jacket. Second printing. 2003. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Signed by editor. Very nice copy. Signed by Editor.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page. (US history, politics, presidents).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed and briefly inscribed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xxviii, 290 pages. Foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg. Introduction by John Q. Barrett. Illustrations. Biographical Sketches includes brief write-ups from pages 173-212. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. Inscribed and dated by the Editor on title page. Inscription reads: For Philip, with best regards, John Q. Barrett 111/24/2003. John Q. Barrett is a Professor of Law at St. John's University in New York City, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and Legal History. Professor Barrett also is the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow and a Board member at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School. Professor Barrett discovered and edited Jackson's previously unknown manuscript, now an acclaimed book, That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press). That Man, an eloquent memoir of FDR from Jackson first meeting him in 1911 through their close working relationship and friendship during the New Deal years, and World War II, is both FDR biography and Jackson autobiography. Before joining the St. John's faculty, John Q. Barrett was Counselor to Inspector General Michael R. Bromwich, U.S. Department of Justice, from 1994-95. From 1988-93, Barrett was Associate Counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh (Iran/Contra). From 1986-88, Barrett was a law clerk to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. William Edward Leuchtenburg (born 1922) is the William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[3] He is a leading scholar of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Derived from a Kirkus review: Intelligent, informed thoughts on FDR's presidency by a close associate: Solicitor General, Attorney General, and finally Supreme Court Justice Jackson (1892-1954). Written in the early 1950s but only recently discovered by editor Barrett among Jackson's personal papers, the manuscript considers FDR in separate chapters as a politician, lawyer, commander-in-chief, administrator, economist, leader, and friend. Although the text has a finished quality, it also has the brevity of quick notes jotted down with examples of Roosevelt's strengths and weaknesses in each department. Jackson promises readers the "testimony of an interested witness" and takes seasoned measure of a man. What the author saw was a self-confident gentleman, brimming with intellectual capital, informal but dignified, capable of being mercurial and of trespassing on legislative turf, as when he tried to remove policymakers outside executive agencies. Jackson unveils episodes of step-by-step policy formation, as when the administration exchanged destroyers for naval and air stations in the Atlantic, bypassing Congressional approval. He also points out, again with examples, Roosevelt's shortcomings: FDR was "impatient of the slow and exacting judicial process" and Jackson remarks that, for someone who effected radical changes on the economic landscape, his friend's vision "did not impress me as being grounded in economic theory or practice." Rather, FDR made his decisions based on political judgment and social philosophy, which he was able to communicate to the man on the street. Jackson writes smoothly and manages to compress many angles of complex material into a brief text. This is an intimate look into the way decisions were made brings Roosevelt very much into human focus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Later printing. Octavo; pp. xii, (ii), 324, (ii), index, ad leaf; Frontispiece portrait plus twenty-four inserted black and white plates; red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and white on the board; Very good, spine faded. Miles, Image Makers #909; This copy nicely inscribed by the author and dated 1919 on the front free fly leaf. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. George G. Harrap, London, 1960. Hardcover, 352 pp. 1st British edition. With black & white photo illustrations. The life of Franklin D. Roosevelt as told by his son. Very good condition. The dust jacket has some edge wear. Signed and inscribed by James Roosevelt. See photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth over boards with gilt stamping on maroon title labels, on front cover and spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1954, stated First Edition. 311 pages. In good condition. Covers have some light fading, but overall are clean. Stamping just a bit faded on spine; otherwise remains bright and clear. Light bumping at head and foot of spine. Pages a bit toned with age, but are otherwise free of marks or tears. SIGNED and inscribed to Pat Kelly (Rep. Edna Kelly's daughter) on front free endpaper by author Lela Stiles. This volume comes from the collection of Edna Kelly (1906-1997), Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from NY from 1949-1969. She was one of only ten women in Congress when she was elected in 1949, and introduced a bill for Equal Pay for Equal Work in 1951, considered the first Equal Pay (for women) bill. A good, clean copy overall. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Some chips at top and bottom of dust jacket at spine. Lele Stiles was Howe's key assistant from 1928 to his death in 1936 . She knew him well and tells a fasinating story here--making the case for Howe the power behind the throne. SIGNED by Stiles on front endpaper. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. First Printing, one of 1000 copies. Octavo (24cm); red cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; [ii],[5],6-17,[5]pp. Signed and dated by MacLeish on half title. Spine faded with rubbed corners, and faint finger-soil at covers, with tanning at covers, pastedowns, and endpapers; Very Good. This printing for presentation to members of the American Booksellers Association, with no copies intended for sale. Includes letter and address presented at the forty-second annual American Booksellers Association on May 6, 1942, which explores the power of book preservation and knowledge against tyranny. [82603]. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gray cloth hardcover. Stated first edition. With a letter from the author to a John Edwards concerning his recent surgery. Please contact us if you're interested in the full contents of the letter. Some rubbing to edges of jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Some black and white images throughout. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Near fine. A check written to the Army & Navy Cooperative Company (Insurance?) for $53.55. Signed lower right, Dan T. Moore. Moore was a Lt. Colonel in the Army and an aide to President Theodore Roosevelt. He boxed with TR in the White House and on one occasion inadvertently landed a punch to the President's eye that blinded him in that eye for the remainder of his life. TR kept this a closely guarded secret and Moore did not find out about it until twelve years after the fact. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Autograph; 282 pages; Inscribed on ffep from the author to Kermit Roosevelt -- For Kermit Roosevelt / from / Arthur Stratton / with a good deal / of pleasure in / the gift. / 1956" (from one spy to another spy). Clean and tight in original binding in dustjacket with tears and chipping (now in mylar cover). The author and the recipient were both key intelligence officers in the Office of Strategic Services (precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency). Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. In addition to being an interesting travel writer and novelist, Arthur Stratton was also an intelligence agent with the OSS. In 1942, while serving as an ambulance driver with the Free French Forces in the Eighth Army commanded by Montgomery, he was very severely wounded, more than ten times, while evacuating wounded soldiers at Bir Hakeim in the Libyan Desert. After recovering from these wounds, he was recruited by the OSS and relocated to Turkey, where he taught English in Istanbul. He later worked for the CIA for ten years, often returning to Turkey (where he likely encountered Ambassador George McGhee who played a role with Roosevelt in the coup against Mossadegh). This book was his first major publishing success. ; Signed by Author.

First edition, second printing. First edition, second printing. Photographic frontispiece portrait. xvi, 334, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt by David Kahn and Thomas Sugrue on the flyleaf. Segrue writes: "I dared not inject my own opinions into this record of Colonel Starling, but I was happy to tug at the historical garment hem of the only President I rank with my greatest hero - Jefferson - your husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt - Sincerely, Thomas Sugrue 3/9/46." Kahn, who was a mutual friend of Roosevelt and Sugrue and who encouraged the book's production (see page xvi of the introduction - "without his enthusiasm, stimulation, aid and support, it could not have been completed"), writes: "To Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: - The story of a faithful follower of your 'sainted' husband - to which I add my appreciation to you for your confidence and friendship. - David E. Kahn." Original red cloth. Very good (some toning of endsheets) Photographic frontispiece portrait. xvi, 334, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed.

The letter also mentions her husband, Franklin D. RooseveltAfter her years as First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt served as U.S. Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. It was a post that perfectly suited her desire to contribute to world peace. And she always took an interest in young people, and was glad to advise them.Typed Letter Signed, on her personal letterhead, New York, October 2, 1956, to a Mr. Hardgrave telling him the subjects he would need to study. ?In reply to your letter, I would advise you to study history, political economy and languages."I wish I had some of my husband?s campaign buttons to send you, but I have none and I don?t know where you could find one.?The areas of studies she mentions would have been of great benefit to someone who wanted to work at the United Nations in which she had been active since its beginning.