[Rarebooks] FS: Colonial Policies of the U.S. inscribed by WWII hero Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Theodore [Jr.]. COLONIAL POLICIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
Garden  City:  Doubleday,  Doran 1937. First  Edition.  INSCRIBED  and
SIGNED  on the front free endpaper by the son of the former president:
"To  John  Wheeler-Bennett/a  great historian/from his  friend/a  mere
colonial/administrator/Theodore  Roosevelt/Dec.'37."  Wheeler-Bennett,
historian  and authority on international affairs, especially those of
Germany  between  the  wars, was knighted after writing  the  official
biography  of  King George VI. Roosevelt, though never  achieving  the
fame  of  his father, was a military hero. Despite a  heart  condition
and  arthritis that forced him to use a cane, he was the only  General
to  land  on  the  beaches of Normandy on D-Day. He died  of  a  heart
attack  a  month  later  and is buried at  the  American  cemetery  in
Normandy  next  to  his brother, Quentin. For his  leadership  in  the
assault  on  Utah  Beach,  Theodore Roosevelt,  Jr.  was  awarded  the
Congressional  Medal  of  Honor. General George S.  Patton  said  that
Roosevelt  was "the bravest soldier I ever knew." He was portrayed  by
Henry  Fonda  in the epic film of the invasion THE LONGEST  DAY.  Near
Fine, lacking the dustwrapper, with a fine inscription.        $500.00

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