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T.R. THE LAST ROMANTIC Brands 1997 1st Ed HC Roosevelt

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Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
ISBN
9780465069583
Publication Year
1997
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
T. R : the Last Romantic
Author
H. W. Brands
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Basic Books
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Topic
General, Presidents & Heads of State
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
45.8 Oz
Number of Pages
912 Pages

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In his time, there was no more popular national figure than Theodore Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so popular, or even his status as a bonafide war hero--the man who led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Most important, Theodore Roosevelt was loved by the people because this scion of a privileged New York family loved America and Americans.And yet, according to Bill Brands, if we look at the private Roosevelt without blinders, we see a man whose great public strengths hid enormous personal deficiencies. His highly exaggerated, and often uncompromising ways drove many of his business and personal friends crazy. His historical writings, which Brands quotes from extensively, are nothing if not a portrait of a boy's endless macho fantasies. He was often so full of himself that his speeches and writings were the frequent subject of fierce satire in their time.Even more revealing, according to Brands, was Roosevelt as son, brother, husband, and father. According to Brands, to understand both the public and private Roosevelt one must understand the impact of his father's death while he was still a child, denying him the opportunity to come to terms with his own manhood. When his first wife Alice died of complications from childbirth, leaving behind a baby daughter Alice, his response was to run away to shoot Buffalo in the west, leaving the newborn infant to the care of his unmarried sister Bamie. When his second wife Edith was seriously, perhaps fatally ill, he left her to fight in the Spanish-American war. His only concern when his brother Elliot, who had been his only friend as a child, became an alcoholic was to hide the news from the public. Determined that his four sons would not dishonor his belief that men, to achieve their manhood, must test themselves in war, he arranged for each to serve, often in the frontlines, during WWI. His youngest son Quentin would die in that cause.Beautifully written, powerfully moved by its subject, TR is nonetheless a biography more appropriate to today's critical times.

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Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465069584
ISBN-13
9780465069583
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1528256

Product Key Features

Book Title
T. R : the Last Romantic
Author
H. W. Brands
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Presidents & Heads of State
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
912 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
45.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
E757.B82 1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-021432
Illustrated
Yes

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