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(0)Jean M. Yarbrough
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Rough Rider, hunter, trust-buster, president, and Bull Moose candidate. Biographers have long fastened on Teddy Roosevelt as man of action, while largely ignoring his political thought. Now, in time for the centennial of his Progressive run for the presidency, the author provides a searching examination of TR's political thought, especially in relation to the ideas of Washington, Hamilton, and Lincoln, the statesmen TR claimed most to admire. The...
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In substantial selections from his earliest writings, the Notes on Virginia, his public papers, and his personal correspondence, this volume traces the development of Jefferson's thinking on such fundamental issues as republicanism, constitutionalism, political parties, and the separation of religion from politics. His proposals for the education of women, the emancipation of slaves, and the expatriation of Native Americans are included, along with...