New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1944) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Vice President Speaks Out About Peach and War!" Selected speeches and articles of Wallace for the period 1933-1944, including when he was serving as the 33rd Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt, chosen and arranged by Lord to illustrate Wallace's political credo. Wallace was a strong supportor of the New Deal and presided over a major shift in federal agricultural policy, implementing measures designed to curtail agricultural surpluses and to address rural poverty. After Roosevelt died in 1945 and Truman succeeded him as president, "Wallace continued to serve as Secretary of Commerce until September 1946, when he was fired by Truman for delivering a speech urging conciliatory policies toward the Soviet Union. Wallace and his supporters then established the nationwide Progressive Party and launched a third-party campaign for president which called for conciliatory policies toward the USSR, desegregation of public schools, racial and gender equality, a national health-insurance program, and other left-wing policies." (Wikipedia) Among the topics covered in this book are the farm crisis, soil and the general welfare, the power of books, the price of free world victory , the danger of American fascism and much more. Illustrated with a frontispiece and other photographs. Index. Newspaper clippings laid in. 280 pp.