"A present day Negro thinker searches for and finds the success secrets of the most widely acclaimed Negro Leader and industrial educator and re-animates them with a trenchant pen which most eloquently breathes a message of hope, good-will and better interracial understanding and co-operation."

Boone, Theodore S. The Philosophy of Booker T. Washington. The Apostle of Progress. The Pioneer of the New Deal. Dedicated to George Washington Carver. Theodore S. Boone. 1939. First Edition. 311pp.

Very rare text by Boone, Pastor of Mount Gilead Baptist Church in Forth Worth, TX. It was likely there that he met recipient of the book, Dr. George Beauchamp Vick. Vick was briefly associate pastor to the legendary Fundamentalist, and scoundrel, J. Frank Norris. Norris had simultaneously been pastoring two mega-churches; one in Texas and one in Detroit. Vick was sent to oversee the Detroit one [after he confronted Norris regarding about embezzlement of funds] and later pulled the Detroit church away from Norris. 

Vick founded the Baptist Bible Fellowship International and Baptist Bible College in Springfield, MO. 

Full page inscription on the fly-leaf reads, quoting Confucius, "If there is righteousness in the heart, There is beauty in the character; If there is beauty in the character, There is harmony in the home; If there is harmony in the home, There is order in the nation; If there is order in the nation, There is peace in the world. To Dr. G. B. Vick. With best wishes from T. S. Boone."

Book itself is essentially unread. Very crisp and clean. Dustjacket, as shown, has some fading and light wear at extremities.