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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... political gossip was the primary recreation . When legislators came to see him as president and wished to speak to him quietly about delicate matters , he talked in a loud voice about their business , to the embarrassment of the politicians ...
... political gossip was the primary recreation . When legislators came to see him as president and wished to speak to him quietly about delicate matters , he talked in a loud voice about their business , to the embarrassment of the politicians ...
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... political calculations , decided to move against their black postmistress , Mrs. Minnie M. Cox . By the fall of 1902 there were petitions for her removal and public meetings to de- mand her ouster . Under the threat of harassment and in ...
... political calculations , decided to move against their black postmistress , Mrs. Minnie M. Cox . By the fall of 1902 there were petitions for her removal and public meetings to de- mand her ouster . Under the threat of harassment and in ...
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... political currents . John Braeman's Albert J. Be- veridge : American Nationalist ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1971 ) shows how Beveridge evolved into a progressive . Louis W. Koenig's Bryan : A Political Biography of ...
... political currents . John Braeman's Albert J. Be- veridge : American Nationalist ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1971 ) shows how Beveridge evolved into a progressive . Louis W. Koenig's Bryan : A Political Biography of ...
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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