Engineer (1890–1974) known for his pivotal role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project. Souvenir typescript, two onionskin pages, 8.5 x 11, signed at the conclusion in blue ballpoint. An excerpt from Of Leaders and Leadership, in part: “Our method of electing a President is crude in the extreme…Yet out of it have appeared great Presidents, raging [sic] from men such as Hoover and Eisenhower, of no originally apparent political skill, to such as John F. Kennedy, as skilled a man politically as this country has produced, yet one who developed an approach to the minds and hearts of people, not only here but everywhere in the world, and to the extent that when he died he was mourned more sincerely than any man since Lincoln…There must be something more, beyond the absurd machinery, some subtle way in which the public will becomes [sic] exerted, some force beyond political manipulation, unrecognized yet powerful.” In fine condition, with a rusty paperclip mark and impression to the upper right. RR Auction COA.
