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'The Four Freedoms'

          The Four Freedoms were spoken into existence by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his State of The Union Address of 6 January 1941.
          F.D.R. said that these freedoms are deserved by all of Mankind.
          F.D.R.'s definition of the Four Freedoms preceded the Attack on Pearl Harbor by almost a year, but his Stand caught the attention of the Press and of a nation that was expecting to be embroiled in the war that had already begun in Europe and in Asia.
          The citizens of America were concerned enough to listen to the speech in its entirety, and to F.D.R.'s many later radio broadcasts.

          Posters of the Four Freedoms were painted by illustrator Norman Rockwell [1894-1978] and distributed all around, and World War II was fought – in part – in behalf of F.D.R.'s promise that all the peoples of the world deserved to live under governments committed to:
          • Freedom of speech and expression;
          • Freedom of every person to worship in his own way;
          • Freedom from want;
          • and Freedom from fear.

'Four Freedoms' entry at Wikipedia

FDR's speech online [36:17 MP3 audio] at Internet Archive {FF at 32 minutes}

Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945]
New York State Senator for the 26th District, January 1911 to March 1913
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, March 1913 to August 1920
44th Governor of New York, January to December 1932
32nd President of the United States, March 1933 to April 1945

Norman Rockwell [1894-1978]

Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms book by Stuart Murray & James McCabe

"Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms" [1993] by Stuart Murray & James McCabe
"The greatest American illustrator's most famous series, based on President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's inspiring Four Freedoms speech . . . plus other Rockwell World War II paintings"
Berkshire House Publrs 9x6 pb [1/93] out of print/used
Gramercy 10½x8¼ hardcover [10/98] for $8.50
Berkshire House Publrs 9x6 hardcover [1/93] for $13.52

Online sales in association with

	"The Fight For The Four Freedoms: What Made F.D.R. and The Greatest Generation Truly Great" [2014] by Harvey J. Kaye Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [4/2014] for $11.99 Simon & Schuster pb [4/2015] for $6.95 Simon & Schuster 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2014] for $9.59
	"The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and The Evolution of An American Idea" [2015] Edited by Jeffrey A. Engel Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [11/2015] for $9.99 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2015] for $29.36

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'The Four Freedoms'