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Originally published in 1954, this book tells the story of Louis McHenry Howe (1871-1936), an American reporter for the New York Herald who became best known for acting as an early political advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Affectionately referred to as the little boss, he would play an important part behind the scenes in shaping the destiny of the man who four times became President of the United States.
THIS BIOGRAPHY of Louis Howe is delightfully written and has the advantage of giving a number of stories which I am sure would never have been printed unless someone close to the work Louis did had undertaken to write it. The sidelights on the relationship between my husband and Louis and what this relationship meant to my husbands public life in the early days and in the struggles of his future life will, I think, be a valuable contribution to history. There has seldom been a story of greater devotion to another mans success but at the same time one realizes that this was not due to any lack of ambition on the part of Louis McHenry Howe. He loved power, but he also recognized realities and he decided that in the end he would exercise more power through someone else and he prided himself on the judgment he used in choosing the individual with whom and for whom he was going to work.
Lela Stiles shows discrimination and powers of observation which mark her as a real reporter. I found her book delightful reading.ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, Foreword, The Man Behind Roosevelt: The Story of Louis McHenry Howe
Affectionately referred to as the little boss, he would play an important part behind the scenes in shaping the destiny of the man who four times became President of the United States.
THIS BIOGRAPHY of Louis Howe is delightfully written and has the advantage of giving a number of stories which I am sure would never have been printed unless someone close to the work Louis did had undertaken to write it. The sidelights on the relationship between my husband and Louis and what this relationship meant to my husbands public life in the early days and in the struggles of his future life will, I think, be a valuable contribution to history. There has seldom been a story of greater devotion to another mans success but at the same time one realizes that this was not due to any lack of ambition on the part of Louis McHenry Howe. He loved power, but he also recognized realities and he decided that in the end he would exercise more power through someone else and he prided himself on the judgment he used in choosing the individual with whom and for whom he was going to work.
Lela Stiles shows discrimination and powers of observation which mark her as a real reporter. I found her book delightful reading.ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, Foreword, The Man Behind Roosevelt: The Story of Louis McHenry Howe
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Text originally published in 1954 under the same title.
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THE MAN BEHIND ROOSEVELT:
THE STORY OF LOUIS McHENRY HOWE
BY
LELA STILES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
To my beloved mother who passed away one month after my book was accepted for publication
ILLUSTRATIONS
Louis Howe at the age of eight.
Howe and his daughter Mary.
Howe and his son Hartley.
A letter written in 1912 to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Howe sketching on Horseneck Beach, 1912.
Howe in his office in the Navy Department.
A watermelon feast in the Navy Department.
Howe with Margaret Durand (Rabbit).
Howe, Mrs. Howe, and Hartley on election night, 1932.
James Farley, FDR, Edward J. Flynn and campaign workers, 1932.
James Farley, Louis Howe, and FDR, November 3, 1932.
Howe and Roosevelt, 1934.
FDR at the funeral of Louis McHenry Howe.
FOREWORD
THIS BIOGRAPHY of Louis Howe is delightfully written and has the advantage of giving a number of stories which I am sure would never have been printed unless someone close to the work Louis did had undertaken to write it. The sidelights on the relationship between my husband and Louis and what this relationship meant to my husbands public life in the early days and in the struggles of his future life will, I think, be a valuable contribution to history. There has seldom been a story of greater devotion to another mans success but at the same time one realizes that this was not due to any lack of ambition on the part of Louis McHenry Howe. He loved power, but he also recognized realities and he decided that in the end he would exercise more power through someone else and he prided himself on the judgment he used in choosing the individual with whom and for whom he was going to work.
Lela Stiles shows discrimination and powers of observation which mark her as a real reporter. I found her book delightful reading.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
INTRODUCTION
IT WAS A warm, hazy day in the late summer of 1928 when I first saw Louis McHenry Howe. With a little newspaper background I had gone to New York from my native Kentucky to write a column for southern and western papers. It was called A Girls Eye View of New Yorkthe viewpoint of a country girl seeing New York for the first time. Al Smith was running for President that year and in my quest for names to enliven my column I secured a temporary job with the Democratic National Committee in the General Motors Building just off Columbus Circle. By some quirk of fate I was assigned to the Division of Commerce and Industry in that industrious hive. Its chief was Franklin Roosevelt.
On my first day at work I looked into an inner office and saw, seated at a huge desk, a curious-looking little man with thinning hair, enormous eyes and a face as full of furrows as a plowed field. Sleeves rolled to the elbow revealed arms thin to the point of emaciation. Now and then a hacking cough racked his frail body as he crouched over a mass of papers on his desk. Startled, I inquired who he was. Thats Louis Howe, Mr. Roosevelts right-hand man, I was told. He runs this place.
I had never heard of Louis Howe and that such an insignificant-looking person could be clothed with such authority was a mystery to me. My feeling about him was equaled only by his impression of me. He couldnt see me for dust. Hed probably heard that I had come in to get data for a newspaper column, hence would be of little use to Franklinwhich was the yardstick by which he measured everybodyand he took delight in giving me such menial tasks as running out for his newspapers or sending me off on quests for cigarettes and pencils. Gritting my teeth, Id go, consoled with the thought that this was only temporary. I even made up speeches to say to him as I left the place for good, little dreaming that this was the beginning of an association that would last for eight interesting and dramatic years.
When Louis Howe died, as Franklin Roosevelts first term was turning toward its close, and his funeral was held in the great East Room of the White House, the newspapers of the land paid him tribute and one editorialist exclaimed, But the man deserves a book! I knew, by then, that he did deserve a book and was so sure that whoever wrote it would interview all those who had worked for him that I sat down at my typewriter and painstakingly wrote all the things I remembered about him. I put the data away in my trunk and waited.
The years passed. Then Franklin Roosevelt died and thousands of words poured from the presses as the books about him multiplied. Associates of his wrote books and had books written about them. But there was nothing about Louis Howe. Friends, who knew my feeling that his story should be told, urged me to write it myself. I pulled my notes from my trunk, culled my diaries and read again all the letters I had written to my mother during the period I worked for Louis, for she had saved them all. I wrote a rough outline of the book and went to see Mrs. Roosevelt at Hyde Park. She gave me a whole day of her valuable time, urged me to go ahead and promised to help me in every way she could. I told her I believed, and intended to say, that Louis Howe did more than any other man to make Franklin Roosevelt President. She replied, You can say that with my blessing.
Other friends of Louis came forward. Bernard M. Baruch gave of his time and sage counsel. Clarence Knapp, faithful boyhood friend; Mrs. Louis McHenry Howe; Mr. Frank C. Walker, long-time associate of Louis; Miss Fannie Hurst; Dr. Frank Freidel, Roosevelt historian; Mr. Herman Kahn, Director of the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, and his efficient staff; and many others, were generous with advice and encouragement. Davis Geiger, a Kentucky friend, urged me on toward publication. My grateful thanks to them all.
This is a simple story of Louis Howe as he was known to those who worked for him. It does not pretend to be a historical document. There is much more that should be said. My best hope is that the book may stir an interest in Louis Howe so that someday, perhaps, one of the countrys historians will dedicate himself to the task of bringing before the world the full story of the little boss who, behind the scenes, played such an important part in shaping the destiny of the man who four times became President of the United States.
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