BEHIND THE BALLOTS: The Personal History of a Politician
by FARLEY, James A.; Margaret Bourke-White
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, ( 1938 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 392 pages, blue cloth
FDR's advisor and Postmaster General, James Farley, and.later Chairman of Coca Cola, gives his memoirs. Inscribed by Farley to John J. O'Brien in 1939. Also laid in is an engraved presentation card from Farley as Postmaster General. Chapter 2 is an effort "made to go behind the scenes in the job of nominating a man for President of the United States, to reveal the magnitude of the task, and to bring home the mistakes, the errors, and the inevitable, unavoidable mishaps. Each reader must decide for himself whether he thinks destiny or blind luch guided our faltering footsteps over these pitfalls." -p.38-9,
FDR's advisor and Postmaster General, James Farley, and.later Chairman of Coca Cola, gives his memoirs. Inscribed by Farley to John J. O'Brien in 1939. Also laid in is an engraved presentation card from Farley as Postmaster General. Chapter 2 is an effort "made to go behind the scenes in the job of nominating a man for President of the United States, to reveal the magnitude of the task, and to bring home the mistakes, the errors, and the inevitable, unavoidable mishaps. Each reader must decide for himself whether he thinks destiny or blind luch guided our faltering footsteps over these pitfalls." -p.38-9,
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230692
- Title
- BEHIND THE BALLOTS
- Author
- FARLEY, James A.; Margaret Bourke-White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1938 )
- Keywords
- james a. farley, political campaigns, FDR, franklin delano roosevelt, the new deal,
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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