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" The timid man, the lazy man the man who distrusts his country, the overcivilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills "stern... "
Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical ... - Page 148
by Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 413 pages
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American Manhood: Transformations In Masculinity From The Revolution To The ...

E. Anthony Rotundo - 1993 - 408 pages
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Edith Wharton's Inner Circle

Susan Goodman - 1994 - 200 pages
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The Politics of Manhood: Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's ...

Michael Kimmel - 2009 - 402 pages
...we shall make of our dealings with these new problems a dark and shameful page in our history. . . . The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs; shrink from seeing us do our...
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God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America

Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 404 pages
..."The Strenuous Life" Roosevelt catalogued all the types that in his view impeded national destiny: "The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty life that thrills 'stern men with empire in the brains'-all these, of course, shrink from seeing the...
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Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the ...

Gail Bederman - 2008 - 322 pages
...aggression and unmoved by virile visions of empire, these men had been sapped of all manhood. pires in their brains — all these, of course shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs; shrink from seeing us do our...
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Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920

David E. Shi - 1996 - 410 pages
...strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife." He expressed a sovereign contempt for the "timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues." The American man must somehow recover the courage to participate in "righteous war," to "dare and to endure...
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

Robert Hughes - 1997 - 652 pages
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King Arthur's Modern Return

Debra N. Mancoff - 1998 - 266 pages
...over-civilized society. Like these men, Roosevelt sought a solution in the encouragement of a vigorous life: The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs; shrink from seeing us do our...
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Race and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Ages of Territorial and Market Expansion ...

Michael L. Krenn - 1998 - 428 pages
...enthusiasm for the war and for the administration of overseas territory. "The timid man," he proclaimed, the lazy man, the man who distrusts his country, the...great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, the man of dull mind whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty life that thrills "stern men with...
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Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon

Deborah L. Madsen - 1999 - 256 pages
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