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Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt. The Rough Riders, An Autobiography
The Rough Riders, An Autobiography book jacket Edited by: Louis Auchincloss
Library of America
ISBN: 1-931082-65-0
Series Number: 153
Product Code: 201634
Price: $35.00
Reformer, rancher, conservationist, hunter, historian, police commissioner, soldier, the youngest man ever to serve as President of the United States—no other American public figure has led as vigorous and varied a life as Theodore Roosevelt. This volume brings together two fascinating autobiographical works. The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame during the Spanish-American War. With his characteristic élan Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from a unique mix of privileged Northeastern college men and hardened Southwestern frontiersmen— "these grim hunters of the mountains, these wild rough riders of the plains,"—how it endured the heat, hunger, rain, mud, and malaria of the Cuban campaign, and how it triumphantly charged up the San Juan Heights during the Battle of Santiago.

In An Autobiography (1913), Roosevelt describes his childhood fascination with natural history, his love of hunting and the outdoors, and his adventures as a cattleman in the Dakota Badlands. But the book is mostly devoted to his life in politics and the emergence of his progressive ideas. Surveying his career as a state legislator, civil service reformer, New York police commissioner, assistant secretary of the Navy, governor, and President, Roosevelt writes of his battles against corruption, his role in establishing America as a world power, his passionate commitment to conservation, and his growing conviction that only a strong national government and an energetic presidency could protect the public against the rapacious greed of modern corporations.

 

Theodore Roosevelt. Letters and Speeches
Letters and Speeches book jacket Edited by: Louis Auchincloss
Library of America
ISBN: 1-931082-66-9
Series Number: 154
Product Code: 201642
Price: $35.00
Letters and Speeches is an extraordinary collection of 367 letters written by Theodore Roosevelt between 1881 and 1919. Addressed to his family as well as an immense range of correspondents that includes Jacob Riis, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, Owen Wister, Upton Sinclair, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Roosevelt's letters revel the personal dimension of one of our greatest statesmen. He describes climbing the Matterhorn; hunting grizzly bears and cougars; reading Anna Karenina while pursuing thieves through the Dakota wilderness; visiting Panama during the digging of the canal; and being shot while running for President in 1912. Also included are the speeches "The Strenuous Life" (1899); "The Big Stick" (1901); "The Man in the Arena" (1910); and "The New Nationalism" (1910).


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