Americana Holiday 2022 - 60 - “What Was Loaned By Our People Through Their Government Must Be Repaid By Foreign Governments To Our People”: The Final Manuscript For FDR’s 1933 Book Looking Forward, His Blueprint For The New Deal, With Corrections And Additions In Roosevelt’s Hand On 22 Leaves 56. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Handcorrected manuscript for Looking Forward. No place, 1933. 235 leaves measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, typing on recto, with corrections in Roosevelt’s hand on 22 leaves, other corrections throughout in pencil, large black ring binder with individual leaves placed back-to-back in mylar sleeves, custom clamshell box. $48,500. Manuscript draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 book Looking Forward, his clarion call for a “new deal” that was published in the month of his inauguration, with Roosevelt’s handwritten corrections in ink on 22 pages. Published amidst the devastation of the Great Depression and in the same month as his inauguration, FDR’s Looking Forward draws on major articles and speeches; it was an immediate best-seller. This extraordinary final draft, containing all but FDR’s Inaugural Address (which had not yet been delivered and was the last thingadded to thebook; it is present here in a photo reproduction of the manuscript for those pages), has additions, corrections and emendations by Roosevelt himself in ink on 22 pages, and numerous other pencil corrections and additions in an unknown hand. The lengthiest addition is found at the top of the first page of text, in which Roosevelt has added: “This is essentially a compilation from many articles written and speeches made prior to March 1, 1933. I have added parts which bind the material together as a whole.” At the end of the introduction, he also strikes through “The White House,” replacing it with “Hyde Park, March 1st 1933”—three days before his first Inauguration. Additionally, there are marks in pencil throughout the text, mostly dealing with grammar or page layout. An important hand-corrected manuscript from a revered head of state.
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