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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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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....
4) The 1910s
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Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Discusses the decade 1910-1919 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"--
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Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2020]
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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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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Surprising, deeply moving, this portrait is framed by a deeply human question: What happens to a powerful man when he loses power? Drawing from a wealth of new and previously unused sources, O'Toole conducts the first thorough investigation of the most eventful, most revealing decade of Roosevelt's life.
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Columbia studies in the social sciences volume no. 470
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Russell & Russell
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1964 [c1940]
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English
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Harvard historical monographs volume 60
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Harvard University Press
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1967
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English
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Times Books, Henry Holt and Company
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2018.
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English
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William Howard Taft never wanted to be president, but won resounding victory in the election of 1908 as Theodore Roosevelt's handpicked successor. The only man to serve as both president and chief justice on the Supreme Court, Taft played a crucial role in shaping how American balances populism against the rule of law. Rosen shows how Taft approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders' vision of limited government.
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