JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I'm not often able to make a post in the "Alphabets" category of this blog, though I can today after finding this untempered, bolded, all- and random-capped, exclaimed attack on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Charles R. Parker's Primer for Hoosiers, ABC which was printed for Parker-Daniels Co. of Indianapolis in 1940, is a top-percentile viciously anti-Roosevelt work as there ever was. Parker's pamphlet was a polemic proclaiming patriot punditry (sorry) for a couple of Indiana politicians while taking enormous and unsubstantiated baby bites into the fringes of Roosevelt (powering into his third term) and the New Deal (which was pretty much folded in at this point). This pamphlet is only ten quick pages, but in it we find descriptions of the president as a robber, dictator (many times), destroyer, and so on who uses Hitler as a shield and whose policies of chicanery have devastated, menaced, destroyed, and raped the principles and Constitution of the U.S. Overall the writing and style is not far from what we have in the White House, right now.
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