[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed by Karl Rove to Obama's mother, sort of, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $750,      Now $500

[ROOSEVELT, Sara Delano] SEYMOUR, Charles. AMERICAN DIPLOMACY DURING THE 
WORLD WAR Inscribed by Edward M. House to Sara Delano Roosevelt. 
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1934. First Edition. A comprehensive 
diplomatic history of the United States from 1914 to 1918. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by the dedicatee of the book, Edward Mandell House, on the front 
endpaper: "To/Sara Delano Roosevelt:/foremost mother of our 
Republic,/with my admiration and affection./E. M. House/1934." Above 
this the book is INSCRIBED and INITIALED by Roosevelt: "for my grandson 
Elliott/from SDR--." Sara Delano Roosevelt, the dominant mother of only 
son Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died exactly three months before the 
bombing of Pearl Harbor. Elliott, the fourth child of Franklin and 
Eleanor, played a key role in the D-Day invasion. "Colonel" House, to 
whom Karl Rove has been compared, was Woodrow Wilson's chief adviser. 
Wilson referred to House as "my alter ego" (my other self), and it is 
not inaccurate to say that House, not Wilson, was the most powerful 
individual in our country during the Wilson Administration. House played 
a major role not only in the United States entering World War I but also 
in shaping wartime diplomacy. Wilson put him in charge of preparing the 
constitution for the League of Nations and of working out an armistice 
with the Allies. In 1932 he supported Franklin D. Roosevelt without 
joining his inner circle. House also authored the novel PHILIP DRU: 
ADMINISTRATOR (1919) whose title character becomes a sinister dictator 
of America. In 1921, House founded the still influential Council on 
Foreign Relations. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. (#013902)        
$500.00

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