Frontier on the Potomac

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 262, [2] pages. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips, soiling, and a scuff on front, Jonathan Worth Daniels (April 26, 1902 – November 6, 1981) was an American author, editor, and White House Press Secretary. For most of his life, he worked at The News & Observer, and later founded The Island Packet. Jonathan Worth Daniels was the son of Josephus Daniels and Addie Worth Bagley Daniels. When his father became United States Secretary of the Navy in 1913, the family moved to Washington, D.C.. Daniels attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and graduated in 1921 with a B.A. He continued at UNC for graduate school, earning an M.A. in English in 1921. He edited The Daily Tar Heel Daniels passed the North Carolina bar exam, but never practiced law. After World War II began, Daniels went into government service, first as assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense and later as one of six administrative assistants for President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who had worked under Josephus Daniels during World War I). In March 1945, less than one month before his death, Roosevelt named Daniels his press secretary, and he continued in the position temporarily under President Harry S. Truman. Daniels' term serving as White House Press Secretary was the shortest since the inception of the position in 1937. Daniels returned to The News & Observer in 1947 and became its editor in 1948. In 1966, he revealed the affair between Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd in his book The Time Between the Wars. Derived from a Kirkus review: Backstage in Washington he covers the personalities and functions of the various governmental departments... From the Presidency, Senate, Congress, Supreme Court, Library of Congress, Civil Service, on down to the lobbyists, pressure groups, the men and women of the press, Intelligence and Foreign Service, the Pentagon, the Navy, Henry Wallace, etc. The onus of office, responsibilities, duties, the men and women themselves, as Daniels has known them, in his various assignments, as he sees them reflecting the country as a whole, as they take their place in hurrying history. Many small touches, a view of the significance of the healthy heresies he has found, this series of ""profiles"" of governmental functioning is knowing, intimate, and interesting in its personal appraisal. Condition: Good / Good.

Keywords: Washington, Press Secretary, Bureaucracy, Congress, Democratic Party, Luther Evans, m James Forrestal, Robert Hannegan, Lyndon Johnson, Harold Ickes, Presidency, Negroes, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, State Department, White House, Henry Wallace

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