Theodore Roosevelt (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nathan Miller
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1858-1919
- Setting: New York City, Washington, D.C., and many places on several continents
- Principal Characters: Theodore Roosevelt, Anna (“Bamie”) Roosevelt Cowles, Alice Lee Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, William McKinley, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Leadership, Ambition, Nobel Prizes, Peace, Presidents, Hunting or hunters, Machismo, Strikes or lockouts, Navies
- Locales: New York, NY, Washington, D.C.
This general reader’s life of a dynamic American president strikes a fine balance between Theodore Roosevelt’s familial and public lives and deftly sets both into their Gilded Age context. Roosevelt lavished on his biographers such legendary feats as his physical maturation from a scrawny, asthmatic, weak-eyed lad to a robust “bull moose” of a man; his charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba in the Spanish-American War; his presidential trust busting; his leadership in the construction of the Panama Canal; and his exploits as an African game hunter. A just perspective on the man,...
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