Teddy and Booker T. by Brian Kilmeade

Teddy and Booker T. by Brian Kilmeade

When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but if newly freed citizens were condemned to lives as share croppers, how much improvement would their lives really see?In The Rough Rider and the Wizard, Brian Kilmeade tells the story of how two wildly different Americans faced the challenge of keeping America moving toward the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation. Theodore Roosevelt was white, born into incredible wealth and privilege in New York City. Booker T. Washington was Black, born on a plantation without even a last name. But both men embodied the rugged, pioneering spirit of America. Kilmeade takes us to San Juan Hill, where Roosevelt led his Rough Riders to a thrilling victory that set the stage for a legendary presidency, and to a small town in Alabama, where Washington founded the first university for African Americans, paving the way for the Civil Rights Movement. Both men abhorred the decadence and moral rot the nation had fallen into, believed that improvement through careful collaboration was possible, and trusted that the American ideals of individual liberty and hard work could propel the neediest toward success, if only those holding them back would step aside. As he did in George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade has transformed this nearly forgotten slice of history into a dramatic story that will keep you turning the pages to find out how these two heroes, through their principles and courage, not only changed each other, but helped lay the groundwork for true equality.

Brian Kilmeade is the coauthor and author of the New York Times bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, and Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans, as well as Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers. His sixth novel, The President and the Freedom Warrior, is due out soon. Kilmeade hosts the daily national radio show The Brian Kilmeade Show and cohosts Fox News Channel's morning show Fox & Friends. He is a resident of Long Island.

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ISBN 13	9780593543825
ISBN 10	0593543823
Title	Teddy and Booker T.
Author	Brian Kilmeade
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2023-11-07
Number of pages	368
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