HOOVER, Herbert.

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The Challenge to Liberty. First edition, inscribed by the 31st President on the front free endpaper, "To Prof. Henry R Fairclough with the kind regards of Herbert Hoover".The recipient, Henry Rushton Fairclough (1862-1938), was a classical philologist who taught at Stanford from 1893 to 1927 and published translations and bilingual editions of Latin authors; his bookplate is on the front pastedown. Fairclough was Hoover's neighbour, and their correspondence is preserved at Stanford.In The Challenge to Liberty, Hoover argues that the expanding bureaucracy, regimentation, and centralization of power under Roosevelt's New Deal threatened American liberty. He defends liberty in the classical sense, opposes expanded state power, and rejects the ascendant ideologies of socialism, fascism, and communism.

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