[Rarebooks] FS: Eisenhower's CRUSADE IN EUROPE, Copy #7 of only 25, this copy INSCRIBED to his brother Milton

[Charles Agvent]

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EISENHOWER, Dwight. CRUSADE IN EUROPE Inscribed to his brother Milton. 
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition. First 
Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and 
photographs. There were 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author 
on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the 
beaches of Normandy, which begins: "You are about to embark upon the 
Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes 
of the world are upon you." Of those 1426 copies, the first 25 were 
bound in full red morocco leather and put aside for Eisenhower's 
personal use. This is Copy #7 and in addition to having the SIGNED order 
is INSCRIBED by the President to his brother and sister-in-law on the 
limitation page: "For Milton and Helen--,/In the realization that/if I 
could have had the help/of Milton in preparing this work/its value, if 
any, would have been/multiplied for every reader./With lasting devotion 
and affection/from their brother/Ike." Crack in text block after the 
half-title page. Still about Fine in a Fine, original slipcase.

Milton Stover Eisenhower (September 15, 1899 - May 2, 1985), the younger 
brother of the President and the youngest of six sons, served as 
president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, 
the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. 
Under Franklin Roosevelt, Milton headed the War Relocation Authority, 
the agency charged with administering what would be a mass removal and 
incarceration of all Japanese Americans from the West Coast. He served 
as a close advisor to his brother and also served presidents Harry 
Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon as a 
special consultant. In 1980, Eisenhower appeared on the ballot in Texas 
as the running mate of Congressman John B. Anderson, Independent 
candidate for President of the United States. (#016961)        $25,000.00

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