The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library (Paperback))

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library (Paperback))
- the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD â€¢ Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

This classic biographyÂ is the story of seven menâ€”a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politicianâ€”who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Yearâ€™s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. One visitor remarked afterward, â€œYou go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talkâ€”and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes.â€

The rest of this book tells the story of TRâ€™s irresistible rise to power. During the years 1858â€“1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading â€œRooseveltâ€™s Rough Ridersâ€ in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his â€œspare hoursâ€ he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called â€œthat damned cowboyâ€ was vice president. Seven months later, an assassinâ€™s bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved.

His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TRâ€™s pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive. â€œIt was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves,â€ the author writes, â€œand set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people.â€

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780375756788
Color	Black
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Length	5.1181
Weight	1.212542441
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ReleaseDate	2001-11-20
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library (Paperback))

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