Behind The Ballots The Personal History of a politician

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Hard cover. Octavo. 392pp. Blue publisher's cloth over boards. Dust jacket includes a portrait of the author by Margaret Bourke-White. No frontispiece. The front end papers bear an inscription from the author and eighteen other signatures of prominent democrats including Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States. Also included is the author's business card as DNC Chairman. Bookseller's label from Hyman's Book Store Des Moines, IA to rear fixed end paper. Very good in good dust jacket with chipping to edges. Farley was commonly referred (truncated) to as a political kingmaker, as he was responsible for Roosevelt's rise to the presidency. He was the campaign manager for New York State politician Alfred E. Smith's 1922 gubernatorial campaign and Roosevelt's 1928 and 1930 gubernatorial campaigns as well as Roosevelt's presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936. Farley predicted large landslides in both, and revolutionized the use of polling data. (Inventory #: 529)