In the run-up to the 1932 Presidential Election, this offered “A Career In Progressive Democracy” book was a popular “campaign book” written as a biography of the candidate by Ernest K. Lindley. A beautiful first edition copy, with a clear plastic sleeve wrapped around a nearly perfect dust jacket, the book is signed by Roosevelt and inscribed by the then-candidate “For Dr. Douglas Quest, with the regards of his friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt,” in black ink on the inside first page. This was the first book ever written about Roosevelt, and covered his career through his time as Governor of New York.

     Lindley, who died in 1979, was a noted Washington correspondent for many years and then an official of the State Department. He was considered to be in in the vanguard of the wave of journalists attracted to Washington to cover the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had covered Roosevelt when he was governor of New York for the old New York Herald Tribune and the newspaper sent him there when Roosevelt was elected President. He was considered by his peers as the leading authority in the press corps on Roosevelt and his policies. He was the author of several books on the subject, of which this is the first. He became the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek Magazine at its launch in 1937, through 1961, when he became a special assistant to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council under President Kennedy. This book comes with a LOA from Steve Grad of Beckett Authentication (A03420).

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