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Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt

William Henry Harbaugh

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Description:This is a positive and controversial book--one that restores much of the luster to Theodore Roosevelt's reputation as a man, as President, and as a reformer and Progressive. Interpreting TR's career from the point of view of what was politically possible rather than theoretically desirable, the author shows how Roosevelt--as a young assemblyman n the New York Legislature, as an uncorruptible commissioner of the civil service and later of the police, and finally as governor and President--repeatedly forced the leaders of the Republican Old Guard to compromise their opposition to his social and economic views.He tells how TR, following his return from Africa in 1910, fretted for a year and a half over the ineffectiveness of his chosen successor before submitting to his overwhelming urge to be President again. And he reveals how TR, having lost his bid for he Republican nomination in 1912, found himself in an insoluble ideological and political dilemma.In three final chapters based on hereto unused sources, the author relates the dramatic story of TR's last great cause--the campaign to force Woodrow Wilson to take the United States into World War I and to prosecute the war with vigor once we were in it.This is also a critical book--Roosevelt is portrayed in full dimension--as a high-minded statesman and as an ambitious politician, as a noble patriot and a flaming chauvinist, as a scientific minded intellectual and a glorifier of war, as an advance agent of reform and a sometimes partisan critic of reformers.And it is an interesting book. The author treats not only of TR's political battles, epochal causes, and remarkably constructive achievements, but also of his private life and inner tensions--his love for Alice Lee and Edith Carow, his affection for his father, his early dependence on religion, his relations with Elihu Root, Ray Stannard Baker, Robert La Follette, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many other notable men, and with his personal tragedies, first as a young husband and then as a mature father.It is a many-faceted book as TR was a many-faceted man. Mr. Harbaugh writes with energy and understanding to make this unusually complete picture of a man's character and deeds.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. To get started finding Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 540

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Octagon Press

Release: 1975

ISBN: 0374936609

Description: This is a positive and controversial book--one that restores much of the luster to Theodore Roosevelt's reputation as a man, as President, and as a reformer and Progressive. Interpreting TR's career from the point of view of what was politically possible rather than theoretically desirable, the author shows how Roosevelt--as a young assemblyman n the New York Legislature, as an uncorruptible commissioner of the civil service and later of the police, and finally as governor and President--repeatedly forced the leaders of the Republican Old Guard to compromise their opposition to his social and economic views.He tells how TR, following his return from Africa in 1910, fretted for a year and a half over the ineffectiveness of his chosen successor before submitting to his overwhelming urge to be President again. And he reveals how TR, having lost his bid for he Republican nomination in 1912, found himself in an insoluble ideological and political dilemma.In three final chapters based on hereto unused sources, the author relates the dramatic story of TR's last great cause--the campaign to force Woodrow Wilson to take the United States into World War I and to prosecute the war with vigor once we were in it.This is also a critical book--Roosevelt is portrayed in full dimension--as a high-minded statesman and as an ambitious politician, as a noble patriot and a flaming chauvinist, as a scientific minded intellectual and a glorifier of war, as an advance agent of reform and a sometimes partisan critic of reformers.And it is an interesting book. The author treats not only of TR's political battles, epochal causes, and remarkably constructive achievements, but also of his private life and inner tensions--his love for Alice Lee and Edith Carow, his affection for his father, his early dependence on religion, his relations with Elihu Root, Ray Stannard Baker, Robert La Follette, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many other notable men, and with his personal tragedies, first as a young husband and then as a mature father.It is a many-faceted book as TR was a many-faceted man. Mr. Harbaugh writes with energy and understanding to make this unusually complete picture of a man's character and deeds.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. To get started finding Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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