"Great Heart": The Life Story of Theodore RooseveltKnopf, 1919 - 242 pages |
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... Roosevelt . The writer has made no serious effort to go into the details of his official and political career or to deal with the great questions of foreign and home policy which came up during his public career . Theodore Roosevelt's ...
... Roosevelt . The writer has made no serious effort to go into the details of his official and political career or to deal with the great questions of foreign and home policy which came up during his public career . Theodore Roosevelt's ...
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... Roosevelt's life . The work has been approached from the view- point of one who was not a partisan ; of one dis- posed to be critical ; of one who , however , viewing Roosevelt's career as a whole , was so moved by its grandeur that he ...
... Roosevelt's life . The work has been approached from the view- point of one who was not a partisan ; of one dis- posed to be critical ; of one who , however , viewing Roosevelt's career as a whole , was so moved by its grandeur that he ...
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... Roosevelt's life will be chronicled in this book . He has tried to be faithful to the main facts , and to so group these facts that the narrative will be vivid and moving - typical of the man about whom it is written - so that not only ...
... Roosevelt's life will be chronicled in this book . He has tried to be faithful to the main facts , and to so group these facts that the narrative will be vivid and moving - typical of the man about whom it is written - so that not only ...
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... Roosevelt in the Bad Lands 12 III Broncos and Bears 30 IV Champion of Women and Children 47 V Keeping Fit 61 VI Roosevelt's " Cops " 70 VII Roosevelt's Influence on American Naval Affairs 85 VIII Roosevelt's Rough Riders 99 IX ...
... Roosevelt in the Bad Lands 12 III Broncos and Bears 30 IV Champion of Women and Children 47 V Keeping Fit 61 VI Roosevelt's " Cops " 70 VII Roosevelt's Influence on American Naval Affairs 85 VIII Roosevelt's Rough Riders 99 IX ...
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The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt Daniel Henderson. PAGE ✓Theodore Roosevelt's Portrait Frontispiece V ~ Roosevelt in the Bear Country 16 Just Before Entering Yellowstone Park 32 Roosevelt , the Fighter 48 Roosevelt , the Man 49 in ...
The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt Daniel Henderson. PAGE ✓Theodore Roosevelt's Portrait Frontispiece V ~ Roosevelt in the Bear Country 16 Just Before Entering Yellowstone Park 32 Roosevelt , the Fighter 48 Roosevelt , the Man 49 in ...
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Page 234 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 192 - Each nation must keep well prepared to defend itself until the establishment of some form of international police power, competent and willing to prevent violence as between nations. As things are now, such power to command peace throughout the world could best be assured by some combination between those great nations which sincerely desire peace and have no thought themselves of committing aggressions.
Page 195 - How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Page 195 - No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 80 - York," to use the vernacular of our native city. To show our community of feeling and our grasp of the facts of life, I may mention that we were almost the only men in the Police Department who picked Fitzsimmons as a winner against Corbett.
Page 217 - To THE SECRETARY OF WAR: Washington, DC : In view of the fact that Germany is now actually engaged in war with us, I again earnestly ask permission to be allowed to raise a division for immediate service at the front. My purpose would be after some six weeks preliminary training here to take it direct to France for intensive training so that it could be sent to the front in the shortest possible time to whatever point was desired. I should of course ask no favors of any kind except that the division...
Page 45 - Here there had been a windfall, and the dead trees lay among the living, piled across one another in all directions; while between and around them sprouted up a thick growth of young spruces and other evergreens. The trail turned off into the tangled thicket, within which it was almost certain we would find our quarry.
Page 134 - can you telegraph from here to the Philippines? " The General thought he might wait till he got to Washington; he was going in an hour. " No," said the President; " no, we will not wait. Send the order to have the names telegraphed, now. Those mothers gave the best they had to their country. We will not have them breaking their hearts for twenty-five dollars or for fifty. Save the money somewhere else.
Page 220 - To do so would seriously interfere with the carrying out of the chief and most immediately important purpose contemplated by this legislation, the prompt creation and early use of an effective army, and would contribute practically nothing to the effective strength of the armies now engaged against Germany.