JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
Perhaps it would be surprising to some to hear that the leaderless leader of the United States that this pamphlet refers to is Franklin Roosevelt--I mean, I was surprised, but then again I guess the leader could've been any president, so long as the opposition was viperous enough.
The title sounds pretty familiar, and to my experience is probably applicable to just about every presidential campaign since perhaps Woodrow Wilson. This is a policy-based and argumentum ad hominem but thoroughly polite screed by Wadsworth Maximillian against Franklin Roosevelt, and was published in seems at the beginning of the 1936 campaign. There's much that Maximillian takes aim at, but a lot has to do with Roosevelt's "Brauin Trust" and in the author's mind turning over the running of the country to an not-elected group rather than the elected president. But then again there's not much that Roosevelt was doing on his own that didn't provoke some ire in this pamphlet--Roosevelt and the entire Democratic Party, which here is the party of the destruction of the U.S. constitution. (The attack actually begins with Woodrow Wilson, who was handed his victory as a result of T. Roosevelt splitting the Republican interest...)
At the end the author quotes Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, saying that there is a new Civil War, and that Roosevelt as a one-man government is on the other side of where Lincoln was in the fight to preserve the country. And so on. I know it can feel as though the political attacks that are head on the radio and read in the press sound a lot like this pamphlet--unfortunately this genre is nothing new.
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