Description
We Hold These Truths: The Drama Of Our Bill of Rights, an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Octavo, 47pp, [1]. Illustrated wraps, title and illustration on front cover. Illustrations by Samuel M. Adler. Housed in rigid folio with title on label affixed to front panel. Book was published in 1942 with a limitation of 3000 copies. Includes a Fireside Chat from December 15th, 1941, shortly after the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
(Halter T-92) From the Frederick B. Adams, Jr. collection.
We Hold These Truths was an hour-long American radio program broadcast live on December 15, 1941, to mark the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights; it was written and produced by Norman Corwin and was the first radio program carried simultaneously on all four major U.S. networks (CBS, NBC Red, NBC Blue, and Mutual), attracting an estimated audience of around 60-plus million listeners, nearly half the nation.
Originally commissioned by the U.S. government’s Office of Facts and Figures before the attack on Pearl Harbor, its broadcast was reaffirmed after that event when officials wired Corwin that “The President thinks it’s more important now than ever to proceed with the program.”
Full title: We Hold These Truths – A dramatic celebration of The American Bill of Rights, including an address by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
