Author: Fish, Hamilton.
Title: Fdr: The Other Side of the Coin. How We Were Tricked Into World War II.
Description: New York, Washington, Atlanta, Hollywood: Vantage Press, (1976). (1976). SIGNED BY ISOLATIONIST CONGRESSMAN HAMILTON FISH - Octavo, 9-3/8 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Black boards titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine, in a gray pictorial dust wrapper. There is a diagonal tear to the top edge of the dust jacket's front panel and a short tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel, with wear to the tail of the jacket's spine. xvii, [i] & 255 pages. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition. Signed twice, once on the half-title and again on the title page, by Hamilton Fish in his shaky 102 year old hand. The New York Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish (1888-1991) was a leading voice of isolationism in the years leading up to World War II. He yielded great power as the ranking Republican on the House Rules and Foreign Affairs committees and fought to keep the U.S. out of the Second World War. Fish was a proponent of hunting domestic communists who he deemed much more dangerous than the threat from Nazi Germany and became one of FDR's most vocal and threatening foes. Fish led the opposition to Roosevelt's Lend-Lease policy to aid Great Britain during the war and opposed calls for extending the draft. Fish spoke against a background of flags decorated with swastikas at a 1938 German Day rally at Madison Square Garden and, in 1939, flew to Oslo for a meeting of the Interparliamentary Union in a plane belonging to the German foreign minister. Fish had distinguished himself during the First World War as a soldier and officer who had served with the 369th Infantry "Harlem Hellfighters", a unit of African-American soldiers led by white officers. Fish and his unit landed in Brest and spent 191 days on the front lines, the longest of any American regiment, and was the first to reach the Rhine River. Fish received the Silver Star and the French War Cross and he and his sister who had served as a nurse were later inducted into the French Legion of Honor. Despite his earlier opposition, Fish called for the nation to unite behind President Roosevelt when the United States went to war in 1941, although he once again returned to fuel conspiracy theories about FDR following the war. Very good .
Keywords: AMERICANA; HISTORY; WORLD WAR II; SECOND WORLD WAR; HAMILTON FISH; ISOLATIONIST CONGRESSMAN FROM NEW YORK; FDR: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN; HOW WE WERE TRICKING INTO WORLD WAR II; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; SIGNED; SIGNAT
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Title: Fdr: The Other Side of the Coin. How We Were Tricked Into World War II.
Description: New York, Washington, Atlanta, Hollywood: Vantage Press, (1976). (1976). SIGNED BY ISOLATIONIST CONGRESSMAN HAMILTON FISH - Octavo, 9-3/8 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Black boards titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine, in a gray pictorial dust wrapper. There is a diagonal tear to the top edge of the dust jacket's front panel and a short tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel, with wear to the tail of the jacket's spine. xvii, [i] & 255 pages. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition. Signed twice, once on the half-title and again on the title page, by Hamilton Fish in his shaky 102 year old hand. The New York Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish (1888-1991) was a leading voice of isolationism in the years leading up to World War II. He yielded great power as the ranking Republican on the House Rules and Foreign Affairs committees and fought to keep the U.S. out of the Second World War. Fish was a proponent of hunting domestic communists who he deemed much more dangerous than the threat from Nazi Germany and became one of FDR's most vocal and threatening foes. Fish led the opposition to Roosevelt's Lend-Lease policy to aid Great Britain during the war and opposed calls for extending the draft. Fish spoke against a background of flags decorated with swastikas at a 1938 German Day rally at Madison Square Garden and, in 1939, flew to Oslo for a meeting of the Interparliamentary Union in a plane belonging to the German foreign minister. Fish had distinguished himself during the First World War as a soldier and officer who had served with the 369th Infantry "Harlem Hellfighters", a unit of African-American soldiers led by white officers. Fish and his unit landed in Brest and spent 191 days on the front lines, the longest of any American regiment, and was the first to reach the Rhine River. Fish received the Silver Star and the French War Cross and he and his sister who had served as a nurse were later inducted into the French Legion of Honor. Despite his earlier opposition, Fish called for the nation to unite behind President Roosevelt when the United States went to war in 1941, although he once again returned to fuel conspiracy theories about FDR following the war. Very good .
Keywords: AMERICANA; HISTORY; WORLD WAR II; SECOND WORLD WAR; HAMILTON FISH; ISOLATIONIST CONGRESSMAN FROM NEW YORK; FDR: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN; HOW WE WERE TRICKING INTO WORLD WAR II; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; SIGNED; SIGNAT
Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 96831
- Book number: 96831
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