CHURCHILL, Winston S. - JOSEPHSON, Emanuel M.

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The Strange Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. First edition, presentation copy to Winston Churchill, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Winston Churchill. With the Compliments of the Author. E. M. Josephson"; with Churchill's posthumous bookplate to the front free endpaper verso, and the bookplate of his son Randolph S. Churchill to the front and rear pastedowns.The work is a tome of conspiracy theories directed against Roosevelt, arguing the Roosevelt family - which Churchill was related to - has monopolized political power throughout American history. "Over one-third of our thirty-three presidents have been derived from a single interrelated group of families" (p. 45). Roosevelt is presented as conspiring against the American people to bring about America's entry into the war - "The full extent of Roosevelt's treachery and flaunting of the Constitution by intriguing war and our entry into it, will not be known until the exchange between Roosevelt and his distant cousin Winston Churchill are published" (pp. 223-4).The book was self-published and joins Josephson's other works on the secret alliance between the Rockefellers and the Axis. It is surprising that such a work made it to Churchill's library. If he ever read it, he'd have discovered the claim that both he and Roosevelt were poisoned by the Russians at the Tehran Conference (pp. 283-4). Josephson argues Roosevelt was murdered in 1945, though does not identify who was responsible.

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