Where I Stand

Nicely signed on first page: Harold E. Stassen (see picture)

Laid in: copy of Washington Times April 15, 1997 article about Stassen Birthday Bash

Clean text. Price unclipped ($2.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.

Book in near fine condition with dust jacket in poor condition with large tears on top front center extending through spine and back (see picture).

Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was an American politician who was the 25th Governor of Minnesota. He was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1948, considered for a time to be the front-runner. He thereafter regularly continued to run for that and other offices, such that his name became most identified with his status as a perennial candidate.

Stassen was later best known for being a perennial candidate for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States, seeking it nine times between 1944 and 1992 (1944, 1948, 1952, 1964, 1968, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992). He never won the Republican nomination, much less the presidency; in fact, after 1952, he never even came close, but continued to campaign actively and seriously for president until just a year before his death.