" Rejected " a poem about Franklin Delano Roosevelt appearing in front of the Devil at the Gates of Hell.
by Anonymous. ( Franklin Delano Roosevelt ) ( FDR )
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Very Good. Broadside, 1 page, 3 folds
The poem can be found in The Assault of Laughter: A Treasury of American Political Humor, edited and with an Introduction by Arthur P. Dudden (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962), 499-500. Rejected is attributed to Anonymous.Theres a very good discussion of Rejected in The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry edited by Cary Nelson (pages 304-316). Here its attributed to V. M. Rodebaugh and was first printed in 1938.This illustration was used in a Nazi propaganda version of Rejected, distributed by rocket bombs aimed at the more than 800,000 American troops fighting at the Battle of the Bulge around 1944 or 1945.
The poem can be found in The Assault of Laughter: A Treasury of American Political Humor, edited and with an Introduction by Arthur P. Dudden (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962), 499-500. Rejected is attributed to Anonymous.Theres a very good discussion of Rejected in The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry edited by Cary Nelson (pages 304-316). Here its attributed to V. M. Rodebaugh and was first printed in 1938.This illustration was used in a Nazi propaganda version of Rejected, distributed by rocket bombs aimed at the more than 800,000 American troops fighting at the Battle of the Bulge around 1944 or 1945.
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- " Rejected " a poem about Franklin Delano Roosevelt appearing in front of the Devil at the Gates of Hell.
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- Anonymous. ( Franklin Delano Roosevelt ) ( FDR )
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- Used - Very Good
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- politics, FDR, hell, franklin delano roosevelt,
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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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