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ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. You Learn by Living. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1960]. Original cloth-backed boards; original pictorial dust jacket (slight soiling).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HER SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW on the front free endpaper: "For Johnny & Anne with love from, E.R. 1960." In this frank work, Eleanor Roosevelt outlines her pratical philosophy of life. Pages 56-57 recount a tale of John Roosevelt as a fifteen year old on a trip to Arturdale: "My son had been around all day and had seen the little homesteads of the people. In the evening he joined in the square dance. I wondered what impression he would take away from this visit. But I asked only if he had enjoyed himself and he said 'yes' with the usual uncommunicativeness of his age. Much later I was to learn that this experience had meant something to him."
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HER SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW on the front free endpaper: "For Johnny & Anne with love from, E.R. 1960." In this frank work, Eleanor Roosevelt outlines her pratical philosophy of life. Pages 56-57 recount a tale of John Roosevelt as a fifteen year old on a trip to Arturdale: "My son had been around all day and had seen the little homesteads of the people. In the evening he joined in the square dance. I wondered what impression he would take away from this visit. But I asked only if he had enjoyed himself and he said 'yes' with the usual uncommunicativeness of his age. Much later I was to learn that this experience had meant something to him."