When You Grow Up to Vote.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. When You Grow Up to Vote. With illustrations by Manning deV. Lee. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1932.
Square 8vo.; blue cloth, stamped in red, some darkening to spine.
First edition. Inscribed by Eleanor to Basil O’Connor: To ‘Doc’ from Eleanor Roosevelt. This children‘s book, published shortly before FDR’s presidential inauguration, contains such chapters as “Our Friend the Policeman,” “Do You Live On a Farm?” and “The President Has Ten Secretaries.” With O’Connor’s library stamp four times. An extremely rare title, it seems to have escaped Eleanor’s biographers, including Cook who tagged Hunting Big Game as Eleanor’s earliest book publication and who, upon learning of its existence, requested a photocopy of this copy for her files.
FDR and Basil O’Connor were partners in the law firm of Roosevelt and O’Connor from January 1, 1925 until FDR’s inauguration in 1933. (Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, owns the letter dissolving the partnership.) FDR valued O’Connor’s opinions, and made him part of the exclusive “brain trust” that formed during his campaign; O’Connor helped write the classic “New Deal” speech FDR made upon accepting the Democratic Nomination for President. In This I Remember, Eleanor writes about the close relationship between her husband and O’Connor: “Basil O’Connor was his friend and associate in many things that were close to his heart” (p. 350). During FDR’s presidency, O’Connor was the original director of the Warm Springs Foundation and the head of the Red Cross.
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