Theodore Roosevelt by Kathleen Dalton

Theodore Roosevelt by Kathleen Dalton

He inherited a sense of entitlement (and obligation) from his family, yet eventually came to see his own class as suspect. He was famously militaristic, yet brokered peace between Russia and Japan. He started out an archconservative, yet came to champion progressive causes. These contradictions are not evidence of vacillating weakness: instead, they were the product of a restless mind bend on a continuous quest for self-improvement.

In Theodore Roosevelt, historian Kathleen Dalton reveals a man with a personal and intellectual depth rarely seen in our public figures. She shows how Roosevelt's struggle to overcome his frailties as a child helped to build his character, and offers new insights into his family life, uncovering the important role that Roosevelt's second wife, Edith Carow, played in the development of his political career. She also shows how TR flirted with progressive reform and then finally commited himself to deep reform in the Bull Moose campaign of 1912. Incorporating the latest scholarship into a vigorous narrative, Dalton reinterprets both the man and his times to create an illuminating portrait that will change the way we see this great man and the Progressive Era.

Cecil F.P. is Kathleen Dalton. Bancroft is a National Park Service Consultant Historian and a history and social science instructor at Phillips Academy in Andover. She was previously a Gilder-Lehman research fellow in New York and a fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Research in American History. She studied Theodore Roosevelt since 1975, after attending Mills College and Johns Hopkins University. She has written several pieces about Theodore Roosevelt and his era.

She and her historian husband, E., live in Andover, Massachusetts. Anthony Rotundo, his wife, and their two kids.

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ISBN 13	9780679767336
ISBN 10	0679767339
Title	Theodore Roosevelt
Author	Kathleen Dalton
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2004-02-10
Number of pages	752
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