As an homage to Ken Burns and his monumental 14 hour series on PBS, THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY, we would like to share our own piece of the story. This presentation copy of FDRs D-Day prayer. Inscribed by FDR to His Son John ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. D-Day Prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House. June 6, 1944. Here printed for his friends at Christmastide 1944. Text in black, red and blue. 8vo, Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1944. Limited edition, no. 45 of 100 copies. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, black morocco spine label, t.e.g., others uncut. Light toning to spine, else fine. In a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Halter, pp. 193-4. $25,000 Presentation copy, inscribed by FDR to his youngest son and daughter-in-law on the front free endpaper, “For Johnny and Anne with love from Pa Christmastide 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt.” FDR delivered this prayer on the evening of June 6, 1944 after Allied forces began their invasion of German-occupied Normandy. The President had 100 copies printed and bound at his own expense to distribute to close friends and family at Christmas — continuing a tradition of book-giving that he had begun in 1935 (see Halter, pp. 193-4). “Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity …”
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