HOOVER, Herbert.
The Challenge to Liberty.
"Our system has at all times had to contend with internal encroachments upon liberty": Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty; Signed by Him and 13 others
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
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First edition, early printing of Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty." Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Herbert Hoover, along with thirteen others including Nebraska Governor Samuel Roy McKelvie, Judge Harry A. Spencer, Near fine in a good dust jacket.
The 31st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover wrote more than two dozen books throughout his lifetime, including The Challenge to Liberty, a harsh criticism of the New Deal. Hoover feared that the New Deal was a threat to the country's "freedom of mind and spirit." He criticized he National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration as "fascistic," and the 1933 Banking Act as a "move to gigantic socialism."
The Challenge to Liberty.
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