American Individualism.

HOOVER, Herbert.

Item Number: 125859

Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1928.

First edition of this work on American individualism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To my dear friend James E. Kelly Herbert Hoover P.S. Are you hungry.” The recipient James E. Kelly was an American sculptor and illustrator who specialized in depicting people and events of American wars, particularly the American Civil War and a close friend of Hoover’s. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A nice association.

On publication, reviewers praised American Individualism as a work that ranks "among the few great formulations of American political theory" (New York Times). Published while serving as President Harding’s Secretary of Commerce, this important early work by President Herbert Hoover represented, to historian Frederick Jackson Turner, clear "evidence of a mind seeking to adapt pioneering traditions to the problems of an industrial and urban age" (Hawley, 3).