Octavo; pp. viii, (ii), 81; red cloth lettered in black in a dust jacket; Very good in a jacket with a faded spine and a little wear at edges. The Townsend Plan was a proposal by Dr. Francis Townsend, a retired medical doctor, during the Great Depression for an old-age pension in the United States. For a few years it spawned a popular movement, but with the passage of Social Security the Townsend movement lost most of its steam.Cousin and intimate friend and advisor to both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Nicholas had a long and interesting life and career. Seller Inventory # 13192

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Title: The Townsend Plan Taxing For Sixty; ...

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City

Publication Date: 1936

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

Dust Jacket Condition: good +

Edition: First Edition.

Store Description

Austin's Antiquarian Books is a used, rare and out of print bookshop offering a general stock of approximately 10,000 used, scarce and out-of-print books, with particular strength in American History, especially books by and about Theodore Roosevelt, Travel, Decorative Arts, Natural History, and Sporting. We also offer a selection of antique maps and prints, historical paper and ephemera. We are members of The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, The Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and the Independent Online Booksellers Association

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