ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.] A Modern Reader and Speaker . Edited by George Riddle. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1901. 8vo, black cloth stamped in gilt, blue quarter morocco slipcase. FDR holograph annotations, in pencil, on several pages. HOW A GREAT COMMUNICATOR LEARNED HIS CRAFT. Signed on the fly leaf, in pencil, "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cambridge, 1902." Roosevelt was a master of the oratorical arts, whether speaking before a great open-air crowd, a small gathering of reporters, or over the airwaves in his patented "fireside chats." Here we have a text-book that he read--and annotaed heavily--to practice his public speaking. One of the most heavily marked essays is Emile Zola's "Justice for Dreyfus." In the margin he writes: "Get Impetuosity all through." Another heavily marked speech is Louis Kossuth's "Russia, the Antagonist of the United States." And of course he studied Cousin Theodore's "The Use and Abuse of Property": "there is no one problem that is so difficult to deal with as the problem of how to do justice to the wealth...of the individual or the corporation, on the one hand, or, on the other, how to see that that wealth in return is used for the benefit of the whole community."
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.] A Modern Reader and Speaker . Edited by George Riddle. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1901. 8vo, black cloth stamped in gilt, blue quarter morocco slipcase. FDR holograph annotations, in pencil, on several pages. HOW A GREAT COMMUNICATOR LEARNED HIS CRAFT. Signed on the fly leaf, in pencil, "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cambridge, 1902." Roosevelt was a master of the oratorical arts, whether speaking before a great open-air crowd, a small gathering of reporters, or over the airwaves in his patented "fireside chats." Here we have a text-book that he read--and annotaed heavily--to practice his public speaking. One of the most heavily marked essays is Emile Zola's "Justice for Dreyfus." In the margin he writes: "Get Impetuosity all through." Another heavily marked speech is Louis Kossuth's "Russia, the Antagonist of the United States." And of course he studied Cousin Theodore's "The Use and Abuse of Property": "there is no one problem that is so difficult to deal with as the problem of how to do justice to the wealth...of the individual or the corporation, on the one hand, or, on the other, how to see that that wealth in return is used for the benefit of the whole community."
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