Presentation Copy to Eleanor Roosevelt
Starling of the White House. The Story of the Man whose Secret Service Detail Guarded Five Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, as told to Thomas Sugrue.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946.
First edition, second printing. Photographic frontispiece portrait. xvi, 334, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy to Eleanor Roosevelt. Original red cloth. Very good (some toning of endsheets) Item #36472
Presentation copy, inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt by David Kahn and Thomas Sugrue on the flyleaf. Segrue writes:
"I dared not inject my own opinions into this record of Colonel Starling, but I was happy to tug at the historical garment hem of the only President I rank with my greatest hero - Jefferson - your husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt - Sincerely, Thomas Sugrue 3/9/46."
Kahn, who was a mutual friend of Roosevelt and Sugrue and who encouraged the book's production (see page xvi of the introduction — “without his enthusiasm, stimulation, aid and support, it could not have been completed”), writes: "To Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: - The story of a faithful follower of your 'sainted' husband - to which I add my appreciation to you for your confidence and friendship. - David E. Kahn."
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