Description
Signed first edition of Shall We Send Our Youth to War by Herbert Hoover.
Small octavo, 36pp. Tan cloth, title in red on front cover and spine. Slight bow to covers. Same date listed on title and copyright pages, no additional printings listed. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, touch of foxing to cloth and endpapers, near fine. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $0.75 retail price on front flap, chipped corners, small tear at center of spine, with foxing and staining.
Inscribed by former president Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper: “The good wishes of Herbert Hoover.”
(Burns, 0300) (Tracey, 27)
A rare piece.
As war spread across Europe, former President Herbert Hoover wrote the following antiwar pamphlet in 1939. He warned that Franklin Roosevelt was attempting to find a “back door” to increase American involvement in the war effort. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hoover reversed his isolationist stance and issued the following statement: “Today there is just one job before the American people. We must defeat this invasion by Japan and must fight it in any place that will defeat it. Upon this job we must have and will have unity in America. We must have and will have full support for the President of the United States in this war to defend America. We will have victory.” (Schaefer, 2020)
