San Antonio College Library

"A note on the sources": p. [200]-204.

This biography of Theodore Roosevelts wife presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edith Roosevelt has become in the literature on first ladies. Likely to spark debate is the authors examination of her views on race.

Few of America's first families have guided the course of a nation as decisively as the Roosevelts. Patriots and poltroons, inventors and country squires, reformers and machine politicians, saints and sinners--Nathan Miller tells the story of those self-made aristocrats whose personal stamp has reflected and influenced America for three hundred years. They were the mirror of their day and their ancestry attests to that fact: from Dutch peasant farmers...

A Most Glorious Ride presents the complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. Covering the formative years of his life, Roosevelt's entries show the transformation of a sickly and solitary Harvard freshman into a confident and increasingly robust young adult. He writes about his grief over the premature death of his father, his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and later the death of Alice and his mother on...

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...

Since the Civil War America had grown enormously in wealth and strength. Now she was ready to translate this economic strength into world-wide influence. The author analyzes Roosevelt's tumltuous career agaisnt the complex background of the American story in the half-century before the First World War.