We're All In It

E. P. Dutton & Company, 1948. Hardback. Collectible: Very Good. Signed (NOT inscribed) by author on ffep. 2nd Printing (November 1948 - Dutton). VERY GOOD with no dust jacket. Binding is tight and square. No marks in text. . . . . . . . Eric Allen Johnston (December 21, 1896 ? August 22, 1963) was a business owner, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a Republican Party activist, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and a U.S. government special projects administrator and envoy for both Democratic and Republican administrations. In 1942, Johnston took over as president of the US Chamber of Commerce. He served on several wartime commissions for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Committee for Economic Development, the War Manpower Commission, and the War Mobilization and Reconversion Committee. In 1944, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin invited Johnston to tour Russia. Johnston agreed, and Roosevelt appointed him an emissary of the United States. Johnston spent nearly a month in the Soviet Union, and was the first American diplomat to tour the Central Asian Republics of the Soviet Union. He met with Stalin for three hours at a time when Ambassador W. Averell Harriman had yet to present his credentials to the premier. -- Wikipedia. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) The World We Live In -- 2.) Peace Without War -- 3.) The Russian People -- 4.) Joseph Stalin -- 5.) The Commissar -- 6.) A Satellite is Born -- 7.) America Invincible -- 8.) Ambassadors from Labor -- 9.) Partnership Capitalism -- 10.) No Holiday from Vigilance. . . . . . FROM THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER ONE: This is a book about America's new role as a world power. It isn't a profound book. I make no pretense of being a profound student of international affairs. I am strictly a product of Main Street, and when I travel I see things through the eyes of Main Street and interpret what I hear with a Main Street mind. The kinds of jobs I've held these recent years have kept me traveling almost constantly all around America and all around the world. Those jobs have gotten me into places and let me see things and talk with people in a way that otherwise would simply have been impossible. I have been in just about all the trouble spots on earth - in Europe many times, through Russia on a long and unrestricted trip, in Africa and the Middle East, and in Latin America. I have been backstage in the global drama of today and talked with men and women who have flesh-and-blood parts. I didn't rely for my impressions on just the heads of states - the Stalins, the Blums, the Churchills or the Roosevelts; I also saw and talked with people in less exalted positions - with people in labor, agriculture, in the professions, and with small shop keepers.