Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
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Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · July 1, 2013
Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States.
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- Who it’s for
- A political life in Roosevelt’s own voice, with reform and power in uneasy balance.
- Genres
- Presidents & World Leaders, Political Lives, 20th-Century America
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, July 1, 2013
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Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a "trust buster".
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He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. Roosevelt was a great personality, a great activist, a great preacher of the moralities, a great controversialist, a great showman. He dominated his era.
Power and Principle
A political life in Roosevelt’s own voice, with reform and power in uneasy balance.
Come here for
- A first-person perspective on power, reform, and political conviction
- Roosevelt’s uneasy line between capitalism and corruption
Expect
- A direct encounter with a forceful, controversial public figure
- Politics viewed through the career of a reform-minded Republican
Where it sits
| Presidents & World Leaders | 99% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century America | 68% |
| Political Lives | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Presidents & World Leaders
- Authors
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- July 1, 2013
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Presidents & World Leaders