VAN VRANKEN FRANCHOT, Nicholas; The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance 1941 | 1st Edition | Signed | Association Copy | Roosevelt Family Provenance, Elfrida Roosevelt.

Description and Condition

• Description
• Hardcover | Cloth. Blue cloth with title plates to front and spine. Language: English. Size: 23.5 cm by 15.5 cm. Pages: 193.
• Book Condition
• Good
• Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Patchy cloth with some loss of colour mainly to spine. Toned title plates. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Minor spotting to text block edges with a few spots spilling to extreme page margin.
• Dust Jacket Condition
• No DJ

Notes

• Association
• This volume represents a significant historical association between the book's advocacy for democratic vigilance and the Roosevelt family's role in operationalising that very principle during WWII. The presence of this text within the library of the Clarke-Roosevelt family at the time of US entry into the war documents the ideological alignment of the Anglo-American elite during a period of existential global crisis.
• Provenance
• Acquired from the personal collection of Elisabeth Cook (Lady Clarke). By descent through the Clarke baronetcy to her step-son, Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Bt. (1939–2019). The Clarke family lineage is established via Sir Humphrey Clarke’s mother, Elfrida Roosevelt, granddaughter of James Alfred Roosevelt.
• Resume
• The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance is a stirring collection of addresses and essays that serves as a philosophical and political call to action for the preservation of democratic institutions. Writing during the dark early years of the Second World War, Franchot explores the historical roots of American freedom and warns of the creeping dangers of apathy and centralised government power. The text emphasises that liberty is not a permanent inheritance but a fragile state that must be re-earned by every generation through civic responsibility and moral fortitude. By synthesising constitutional principles with contemporary geopolitical concerns, the work provides a high-level defence of the American way of life at a moment of existential global crisis.
• Author
• Nicholas Van Vranken Franchot was a prominent American industrialist, philanthropist, and public servant whose life epitomised the intersection of business and patriotic duty. Hailing from a distinguished New York family, Franchot was a successful oil executive and a dedicated member of the Republican Party, serving as a delegate to multiple national conventions. His worldview was deeply rooted in the belief that the preservation of American democracy required constant, active participation from its citizens. Published on the cusp of America’s entry into World War II, his writings reflect the urgent anxieties and ideological convictions of the pre-war American elite, advocating for a robust Defense of individual liberties and a rejection of isolationism in the face of rising global totalitarianism.

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