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1st Vintage Books ed. |
| Description |
x, 708 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-682) and index. |
| Summary |
Out of this biography emerges a new picture of the Progressive Era, of state-building and reform won in partnership between TR and activists such as Jane Addams and Frances Kellor. In his political maturity Roosevelt aspired to be the builder of the modern American welfare state in order to give industrial workers a better life and at the same time to stand up more forcefully against the arrogance and greed of large corporations. Dalton shows how TR called for a revival of American arts and letters, and how his career as a scientist affected his reform program and his views on race, and how toward the end of his life he finally commited himself to the cause of racial equality. Both an updated political interpretation and an intimate personal story of a loving but difficult man, his wife, his family, and his loyal friends, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life will change persuasively the way we see this great and complex man and his times. |
| Contents |
Book 1. Wherein a young duke makes himself a true man. The handicap of riches ; The death of the young duke ; "My heart was nearly breaking" -- Book 2. Wherein a gentleman makes himself a man of the people. The sensitive plant ; Soldier at the moral frontier and at war ; A "wild gallup, at breakneck speed" ; The strong man and a weak state ; A better Democrat ; "I so thoroughly believe in reform" ; Saving "our own national soul" -- Book 3. Wherein a politician makes himself a prophet. The world citizen ; A progressive world movement ; The Bull Moose unheard ; Why is Roosevelt unjailed? |
| Subject |
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (OCoLC)fst00032496
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Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
0679767339 (pbk.) |
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9780679767336 (pbk.) |
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