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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The...
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The...
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Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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[1998]
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English
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The catalog to an exhibition of photographs, illustrations, and other memorabilia about the life and career of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Manhattan Sites and Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
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2018.
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Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights), to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders....
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"In 1904 Morocco, European powers desire a foothold in the Arab world -- and [desert chieftain] Raisuli is determined to stir up tribal fury against them. So he kidnaps an American widow ... and her children, igniting a chain of events that include President Theodore Roosevelt ... wielding the big stick of foreign policy"--Container.
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Lyons Press
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[2018]
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English
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Describes the collaboration between the American president and the financier as they put aside their differences and paved the way for government and business to work together to avert business crises and achieve economic stablilty for the country.
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2014.
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Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor as the most prominent members of the most important family in history. Through their stories, PBS chronicles the history they helped to shape, from the Square Deal to the New Deal, San Juan Hill to the Western Front, to the founding of the United Nations.
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time...
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Forge
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2019.
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English
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The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt is a historical thriller from award-winning political journalist and Washington insider Burt Solomon, featuring Teddy Roosevelt's near death...accident or assassination attempt? Theodore Roosevelt had been president for less than a year when on a tour in New England his horse-drawn carriage was broadsided by an electric trolley. TR was thrown clear but his Secret Service bodyguard was killed instantly. The trolleys...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
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[2019]
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English
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""Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible."-- Tom Bissell Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning...
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