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Author McFarland, Philip James.

Title Mark Twain and the Colonel [electronic resource] : Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century / Philip McFarland.

Imprint Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 499 p. : ill., ports.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents War -- Return to America -- Celebrity -- Vice-presidential candidate -- Warfare -- Imperialist America -- Anti-imperialist -- Election results -- The strenuous life -- West -- Rural upbringing -- Urban upbringing -- Clemens goes west -- Grand tours -- Western writings -- Continental America -- The Philippines -- Pan-American Exposition -- Race -- Yale bicentennial -- Racial America -- Back to Hannibal -- Roosevelt and race -- Livy -- Huckleberry Finn -- Roosevelt and the Philippines -- Placating the South -- Oil -- The Kanawha -- Corporate America -- Roosevelt as reformer -- The Gilded Age -- Bankruptcy -- In the White House -- Trustbusting -- Our life is wrecked -- Children -- A seventieth birthday -- Susy -- America at home -- Bully father -- President in his own right -- Global visions -- Bereft and adrift -- Young people -- Peace -- Carnegie -- America at peace -- Late pleasures -- TR steps down -- Jean -- Funerals -- Bull Moose -- Afterward.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Influence.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Influence.
United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781442212268 (cloth alk. paper)
9781442212275
9781442212282 (electronic bk.)
9781442212282 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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