[Rarebooks] FS: Harry Truman, THE MAN OF INDEPENDENCE, "Read it carefully!"
Charles Agvent
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Wed Jun 26 07:36:56 EDT 2013
(TRUMAN, Harry) DANIELS, Jonathan. THE MAN OF INDEPENDENCE. Philadelphia
& New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1950). First Edition. Fourth
Impression. The first full story of the President's rise from a Missouri
farm to the White House written by his presidential secretary who helped
Truman in his transition from Vice-President to President. His father,
Josephus Daniels, as the Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson, was
Franklin D. Roosevelt's first boss in the federal government. This copy
is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the former President on the half-title page:
"To Judge Abraham L. Marovitz/kind regards from/Harry Truman." Truman
has also dated this "12/9/60" and added a note: "(Read it carefully!)."
Marovitz was United States District Court Judge for the Northern
District of Illinois. His ownership stamps are on the front pastedown
and endpaper. Near Fine in a Good or better, attractive dustwrapper.
(#013784) $1,000.00
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