Williams of West Point

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293 Pp. Gray Green Cloth Stamped In White, Black, And Bright Green. First Printing With "1" At Bottom Of Last Page, "Published September, 1908" On Copyright Page. Slight Edge Wear, A Little Loss Of Parts Of Chalk Letters On Spine, Previous Owner's Name On Front Endpaper. Very Scarce, No Copy Of The Appleton First Edition Shown In Institutional Holdings Cataloged In Worldcat. Hugh Samuel Johnson (1882 ?1942), Son Of An Irish Immigrant Who Became A Lawyer, Entered West Point In 1899. From 1907 To 1909 He Was Stationed At Pampanga, Philippines, But Later Was Transferred To California, And Was Subsequently Stationed At Yosemite And Sequoia National Parks, Named Superintendent Of Sequoia National Park In 1912. At The University Of California (At Berkeley) He Received His Bachelor Of Arts Degree (With Honors) In 1915 And His Juris Doctor In 1916 (Doubling Up On Courses To Graduate In Half The Time Required). Transferring To The Judge Advocate General's Corps (Jag), From May To October 1916 He Served Under General John J. Pershing In Mexico With The Pancho Villa Expedition, Then In Washington. Johnson Helped Co-Author The Regulations Implementing The Selective Service Act Of 1917. He Ordered Completed Several Of The Initial First Steps Needed To Implement The Draft, Prior To Congressional Authorization. He Was Promoted To Colonel On January 8, 1918, And To Brigadier General On April 15, 1918, The Youngest Person To Reach The Rank Of Brigadier General Since The Civil War. Johnson Was Appointed Director Of The Purchase And Supply Branch Of The General Staff In April 1918, And To Assistant Director Of The Purchase, Storage And Traffic Division Of The General Staff In October 1918. He Favorably Impressed Many Businessmen, Including Bernard Baruch (Head Of The War Industries Board). Johnson Was Named Assistant General Manager Of The Moline Plow Company On September 1, 1919. In 1927 He Become An Adviser To Bernard Baruch. He Joined The Brain Trust Of Franklin D. Roosevelt In The 1932 Presidential Election. His Major Role Was Drafting Speeches, Most Notably One That Fdr Delivered In Pittsburgh Denouncing The Reckless Spending Of The Hoover Administration And Calling For A Very Conservative Fiscal Policy. In 1933 Roosevelt Appointed Johnson To Administer The National Recovery Administration (Nra). Big Business And Labor Unions Both Turned Hostile. The Nra, Cursed At The Time, Has Remained The Epitome Of Political Aberration, Illustrative Of The Pitfalls Of ?Planning? And Deplored Both For Hampering Recovery And Delaying Genuine Reform. He Distributed Copies Of A Fascist Tract Called "The Corporate State" By One Of Benito Mussolini's Favorite Economists, Bruno Biagi, Including Giving One To Frances Perkins And Asking Her To Give Copies To Roosevelt's Cabinet. Perkins Feared That Johnson Looked On Italian Fascist Corporativism As A Kind Of Model For The American Economy, And She Convinced Roosevelt To Fire Him In September 1934. The Nra Continued To Deteriorate?It Was Abolished In 1935. Upon Leaving The Roosevelt Administration, Johnson, Who Had Long Been A Successful Essay Writer For National Magazines, Now Became A Syndicated Newspaper Columnist Specializing In Political Commentary. He Supported Roosevelt In The 1936 Presidential Election, But When The Court-Packing Plan Was Announced In 1937 He Denounced Roosevelt As A Would-Be Dictator. In 1939 He Endorsed Isolationism?Staying Out Of World War Ii; He Endorsed Wendell Willkie The Republican Candidate In The 1940 Presidential Election. Johnson Wrote A Number Of Articles And Stories. One Future History Piece, The Dam, Was Written In 1911 And Appears In The Sam Moskowitz Anthology, Science Fiction By Gaslight. In The Story, Japan Invades And Conquers California. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 024541

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