The Challenge to Liberty.

HOOVER, Herbert.

Item Number: 136029

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.

First edition of Herbert Hoover’s challenge to Roosevelt’s New Deal arguing it abandoned “the heritage of liberty.” Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper by the author, “The compliments of Herbert Hoover.” With a compliments card of Hoover laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

The 31st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover wrote more than two dozen books throughout his lifetime, including The Challenge to Liberty, a harsh criticism of the New Deal. Hoover feared that the New Deal was a threat to the country's "freedom of mind and spirit." He criticized he National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration as "fascistic," and the 1933 Banking Act as a "move to gigantic socialism."