The Presidency of Theodore RooseveltUniversity Press of Kansas, 1991 - 355 pages Theodore Roosevelt was hearty, frank, freindly, and bold - a president so popular that many Americans believed they knew him personally. Through the force of his personality and excitement of his adventuring, he wove the presidency into the fabric of daily life as no other president had done. Nearly a century later he is remembered as the most colourful chief executive. |
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... Canal Commission rethink its recommendation . The commission de- cided on 18 January that Panama offered " the most practicable and feasible " route for a canal , and Roosevelt sent its findings to Congress two days later . 32 Senator ...
... Canal Commission rethink its recommendation . The commission de- cided on 18 January that Panama offered " the most practicable and feasible " route for a canal , and Roosevelt sent its findings to Congress two days later . 32 Senator ...
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... canal across the isthmus . A French engineer in his early forties who had worked on the abortive Panama canal project of Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps during the 1880s and 1890s , Bunau - Varilla was a balding man with a flowing mustache ...
... canal across the isthmus . A French engineer in his early forties who had worked on the abortive Panama canal project of Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps during the 1880s and 1890s , Bunau - Varilla was a balding man with a flowing mustache ...
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... Canal is extensive and complex . David G. McCullough's The Path between the Seas : The Creation of the Panama Canal , 1870-1914 ( New York : Simon & Schuster , 1977 ) is a well - written synthesis . Dwight C. Miner's The Fight for the ...
... Canal is extensive and complex . David G. McCullough's The Path between the Seas : The Creation of the Panama Canal , 1870-1914 ( New York : Simon & Schuster , 1977 ) is a well - written synthesis . Dwight C. Miner's The Fight for the ...
Contents
Keeping the Left Center Together | 225 |
We Were at Absolute Peace | 251 |
There Is No One Like Theodore | 271 |
Copyright | |
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