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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ALL BUT THE PEOPLE: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND HIS CRITICS, 1933-39, George Wolfskill, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, stated 1st printing, 1969. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block is in fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog ears. There is no bookplate or signature of a previous owner. Not a remainder or library book. The red cloth boards are in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in very good condition (slight crinkling along top and bottom edges, faded spine). 9 ½ x 6 ½, 386 pages, 29 ounces XX [From the inner flaps] That great betrayer and liar - Franklin Double-Crossing Roosevelt (Father Charles E. Coughlin). If you were a good honest man, Jesus Christ would not have crippled you (letter to the President). No slander is too vile, no canard too preposterous, to find voice among those who regard the President as their mortal enemy (Marquis W. Childs, journalist). Critics and criticism. That is what ALL BUT THE PEOPLE is about. Specifically it is a study of the critics of Franklin Roosevelt - who they were, what they were, what they criticized and why, and what (if anything) they did about it. But while authors George Wolfskill and John A. Hudson have shown Roosevelt and the New Deal as special targets of attack, they have also identified the sources and kinds of criticism with which any President must contend, the enemies he is likely to encounter. In general, the authors have moved along the spectrum from the irrational to the rational, from criticism that made little sense to criticism that made a great deal of sense. Some of the critics with whom they have dealt were decent, honorable men whose motives were above reproach, others were deranged individuals, obsessed by twisted and sinister motives. The period covered is 1933 to 1939, crucial years in which domestic affairs - depression, recovery, reform - strained the energies and riveted the attention of the country, years in which every word and every deed of the President were attacked by both Left and Right. ALL BUT THE PEOPLE is an effort to see Roosevelt and the New Deal through hostile eyes; to let his enemies speak for themselves. It is also an attempt to delineate a certain streak of madness in American political criticism which has received scant attention and to appraise the adverse effects of such criticism on the course of events.…

HARDBACK RED. Condition: Fair. JACKET: WORN DJ. FIRST PRINTING. gilt on spine, exlibrary edition, flaps of dj attatched to inside of boards, mylar jacket preserving dj DATE PUBLISHED: 1969 EDITION: FIRST PRINTING 386.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Spine cloth faded; two 1" water stains on front cover, else. G-VG unmarked Hardback; no DJ. xii + 386 pp.

Condition: very good, very good. First Printing. 24 cm, 386, illus., index, slight wear, soiling, and sticker residue on DJ.