Roosevelt The Reformer

Author : Richard Downing White
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817313613
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roosevelt the Reformer written by Richard Downing White and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard White Jr. situates young Roosevelt within the exciting events of the Gilded Age, the Victorian era, and the gay nineties. He describes Roosevelt's relationships with family, friends, colleagues, and adversaries.

Author : Edmund Morris
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307777820
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt written by Edmund Morris and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of Modern Library’s 100 best nonfiction books of all time • One of Esquire’s 50 best biographies of all time “A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle.”—Time This classic biography is the story of seven men—a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician—who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. One visitor remarked afterward, “You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk—and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes.” The rest of this book tells the story of TR’s irresistible rise to power. During the years 1858–1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading “Roosevelt’s Rough Riders” in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his “spare hours” he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called “that damned cowboy” was vice president. Seven months later, an assassin’s bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved. His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR’s pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive. “It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves,” the author writes, “and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people.”

Author : Gary L. Blackwood
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761405207
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rough Riding Reformer written by Gary L. Blackwood and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life story of our twenty-sixth president, covering his illness-plagued childhood as well as his careers as a rancher, soldier, and political reformer.

Author : James R. Kearney
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; the Evolution of a Reformer written by James R. Kearney and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1968 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the familiar story of a lonely childhood, James Kearney traces the gradual development of a shy, self-effacing girl into a national figure. The book's chief emphasis is on the crucial years that begin with the inauguration of 1933, when Eleanor Roosevelt emerged from the shadow of a family life dominated by her strong-willed mother-in-law to assume an active role in American public life. She was, in many ways, singularly ill-equipped for such a role. Self-critical, impulsive, and trustful to the point of gullibility, she was bound to make mistakes, and whatever mistakes she made were certain to be publicized mercilessly. Her touching belief in the idealism of youth involved her with the American Youth Congress. Her experience with the small furniture factory she had started at Hyde Park predisposed her to expect miracles from the Subsistence Homestead Division's plan to encourage handicraft production in rural areas. When the Communist domination of the AYC became obvious, she was pilloried as a fellow traveler or worse. The dismal failure of the model homesteads at Arthurdale, West Virginia, focused public attention on her innocent disregard of economic facts. And as a staunch champion of equal rights for the Negro, she was a target for abuse from racists of all kinds. Curiously enough, the torrent of vilification and ridicule had little effect. Mrs. Roosevelt continued to champion the underdog, to busy herself in diverse good causes, to enlist her husband's support of them and to chronicle all in her column "My Day." Her fan mail was enormous and, though some of the letters were uncomplimentary, most of them were not. Neither abuse nor moderate and objective criticism tarnished her public image. While statesmen spoke in impersonal phrases, she spoke directly to the people, communicating her concern as one human being to another. This was her gift to the people of America nad it was for this that they loved her.

Author : Joshua David Hawley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300145144
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theodore Roosevelt written by Joshua David Hawley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Hawley examines Roosevelt's political thought to arrive at a revised understanding of his legacy. He sees Roosevelt as galvanizing a 20-year period of reform that permanently altered American politics and Americans' expectations for government social progress and presidents.

Author : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355212195
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Ranch to the White House written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331199199
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Ranch to the White House written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From the Ranch to the White House: Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Author, Legislator, Field Sportsman, Soldier, Reformer and Executive When we meet a man of lofty moral and physical courage, whose conscience is his supreme master, who loves his fellow-men, is generous, charitable, and as quick to reward as to condemn, whose patriotism is a part of his religion, and who gives and demands a "square deal" every time, we are apt to think he only lacks wings to soar away as a full-fledged angel. Yet it would be fulsome and absurd to claim that Theodore Roosevelt is such a person. Being human, he has made errors, and will make more of them before he dies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781407744902
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Ranch to the White House written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Nationalism written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacob Riis
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 145850042X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: