Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xxi, 461 pages. Appendices. Bibliography and Sources. Index. Faint "damaged" stamp on front endpaper, DJ worn, rear DJ flap separated. Introduction by Anna Roosevelt Halsted. Bernard Asbell spent six years analyzing Roosevelt's private papers, and diaries of White House associates and interviewers. He has written--as a speculation on history--F.D.R. 's New Deal memoirs for him. Bernard Asbell was a writer on politics and government and a college professor. Mr. Asbell wrote 12 books, including ''When F.D.R. Died,'' which was on The New York Times best-seller list in 1962. Other books included ''The Senate Nobody Knows'', which followed the activities of Senator Edmund S. Muskie for 18 months in 1975-76; ''The Pill: A Biography of the Drug That Changed the World''; and, with Joe Paterno, the football coach at Pennsylvania State University, ''Paterno: By the Book.'' He also edited ''Mother & Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt''. Mr. Asbell wrote hundreds of articles for magazines including Harper's and The Saturday Evening Post, and he was president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors in 1963 and 1964. He taught writing at Yale and Clark Universities before joining the faculty at Penn State in 1984 as an associate professor of English, retiring in 1992. ''He was one of few professors without a Ph.D. to hang onto,'' Professor Brenchley said. In fact, Mr. Asbell had no college degrees. More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 211, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. DJ is price clipped and as tears at top front and some wear and soiling. Bernard Asbell was a writer on politics and government, a college professor and a folk singer. Mr. Asbell wrote 12 books, including ''When F.D.R. Died,'' which was on The New York Times bestseller list. Other books included ''The Senate Nobody Knows, which followed the activities of Senator Edmund S. Muskie for 18 months in 1975-76; ''The Pill: A Biography of the Drug That Changed the World''; and, with Joe Paterno, the football coach at Pennsylvania State University, ''Paterno: By the Book.'' He also edited ''Mother & Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt''. Mr. Asbell wrote hundreds of articles for magazines including Harper's and The Saturday Evening Post, and he was president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors in 1963 and 1964. He taught writing at Yale and Clark Universities and joined the faculty at Penn State in 1984 as an associate professor of English, retiring in 1992. ''He was one of few professors without a Ph.D.,'' Professor Brenchley said. Mr. Asbell had no college degrees. That was perhaps caused by a detour into folk music that he took as a youth. 'I knew him when he was a teenager and he heard Woody Guthrie and me sing,'' Pete Seeger, an old friend, said. Mr. Seeger said that Mr. Asbell wanted to join his group in 1942 but that he had to turn him down because there were no openings and instead encouraged him to strike out on his own, which he did. ''He wrote some quite good songs,'' Mr. Seeger said. More