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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Diversion Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Crippling asthma, a frail build, and grossly myopic eyesight: these were the ailments that plagued Teddy Roosevelt as a child. In adulthood, he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition and was told never to exert himself again. Roosevelt's body was his weakness, the one hill he could never fully conquer--and as a result he developed what would become a lifelong obsession with athletics that he carried with him into his presidency. As...
145) Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: a young politician's quest for recovery in the American West
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In this work, the author chronicles the turbulent years Roosevelt spent as a rancher in the Badlands of Dakota Territory, during which the character and commitment of the future president and conservationist took shape.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The 20th-century American Presidency is something of a mystery. Some Presidents performed exceptionally well in office, displaying strong leadership and winning the respect of the American people as well as the rest of the world. Others fell short of expectations and are remembered at best as marginal chief executives. What was it that allowed some to rise to greatness while others failed? What elusive mix of character traits, circumstance, and determination...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the friendship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, who encouraged one another to mine the greatness that lay within each of them despite the political disagreements that almost tore them apart.
148) The lion and the journalist: the unlikely friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Theodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. Bishop hitched his wagon to the politician's star and used his editorial pages in New York papers to buttress Roosevelt's initiatives first as police commissioner, then as governor and president. Here is a new and important look at one of America's most important leaders and the man who helped him...
149) Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
150) The folly of empire: what George W. Bush could learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Abridged.
Language
English
Description
Mornings on Horseback is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household (and rarefied social world) in which he was raised. His father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, "Greatheart," a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail...
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