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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent "illegitimate" branch of the family, William J. Mann paints an elegant, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking group portrait of this legendary family. Mann argues that the Roosevelts’ rise to power and prestige was actually driven by a series of intense personal contest that at times devolved into blood sport. His compelling and eye-opening masterwork is...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history....
Author
Publisher
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
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Focuses on Roosevelt's pre-presidential career, covering the period between 1858 to 1901, during which time Roosevelt built himself up from a frail asthmatic youth to a robust man with varied interests
47) Rough riders
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A fact-based, rough and tumble western depicting a young and energetic Theodore Roosevelt leading his legendary Rough Riders in their fight against oppressive Spanish rule at the turn of the 20th century.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early political career, Roosevelt took on local Republican factions...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
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.
Author
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
“Presidential darling, Americas sweetheart, national rebel: Teddy Roosevelts swashbuckling daughter Alice springs to life in this raucous anthem to a remarkable woman.”Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network. A sweeping novel from renowned author Stephanie Marie Thornton... Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking,...
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English
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Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the epic 1915 libel case in which Theodore Roosevelt, weighing a last presidential run, turned on former allies to challenge corruption in the political party that made him.
“No more dramatic courtroom scene has ever been enacted,” reported the Syracuse Herald on May 22, 1915 as it covered “the greatest libel suit in history,” a battle fought between former President Theodore Roosevelt and the leader of the Republican party. Roosevelt...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A biography of American socialite and writer Alice Roosevelt Longworth"--
"I can do one of two things, I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."; Theodore Roosevelt
During Theodore Roosevelt's presidency - from 1901 to 1909, when Mark Twain called him the most popular man in America - his daughter Alice Roosevelt mesmerized the world with her antics and beauty. Alice was known for carrying a gun,...
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Series
Action presidents volume 3
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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We all know that Theodore Roosevelt protected the environment and was the cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt. But did you also know that he was the inspiration for the Teddy bear, wrote adventure books, and once gave a speech with a gunshot wound in his chest? Read all about the committed conservationist, resolute Rough Rider, and willful warrior Theodore Roosevelt in the third Action Presidents book, where the history is real and the jokes are...
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