ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.

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The Public Papers and Addresses. First edition, in the deluxe binding, inscribed by the 32nd President on the front free endpaper of the first volume, "For Samuel Falk from Franklin D. Roosevelt", and additionally inscribed by the editor, "For my friend Sam Falk with regards from Samuel I. Rosenman".Falk, whose bookplate is on the front free endpapers, was a New York attorney and prominent lay figure at the Congregation Rodeph Sholom synagogue, later serving as its president. The editor, Rosenman (1896-1973), was a fellow lawyer and a leading spokesman for the New York Jewish community. He served as Roosevelt's speechwriter from 1928 to 1945, coining the term "New Deal" and helping Roosevelt to articulate and conceptualize his program.Roosevelt was closely involved in the publication of his papers and addresses, contributing the introductions and notes. It is "one of the most interesting, authoritative, and historically valuable works of its kind ever published... [Roosevelt's] copious notes explain in many instances the purpose behind his words and the eventual objectives to be obtained, followed by a very human analysis of what actually happened. These illuminating comments bind the material into an integrated whole that becomes, in effect, a running history of the Roosevelt administration by FDR himself" (Halter, p. 133). These volumes collect Roosevelt's papers and speeches from his election as governor of New York in 1928 to the end of his first presidential term in 1936

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