Roosevelt, Theodore
(b. October 27, 1858, d. January 6, 1919) Twenty-fifth president of the United States (1901–1909).
Theodore Roosevelt led the United States into the front ranks of the wor...
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Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919
American President and Adventurer
In addition to his years as the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt was an adventurer and big-game hunter who travele...
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) American Politician and Conservationist
Historians often cite conservation of natural resources as Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring contribution to t...
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One of the most popular, controversial, and important presidents, Theodore Roosevelt was a hearty, dynamic leader. His administration introduced much-needed monitoring of business with an established ...
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The first modern American president, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was also one of the most popular, important, and controversial. During his years in office he greatly expanded the power of the pres...
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Theodore Roosevelt was probably America's closest approximation to a man of letters who was also a man of affairs. Roosevelt possessed an extraordinarily strong intellect coupled with the energies and...
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The persona Theodore Roosevelt projected as, among other things, president of the United States, man of letters, Rough Rider, historian, big-game hunter, and conservationist has come to symbolize the ...
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Theodore Roosevelt was a prolific author, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, and the only United States president to be awarded a Congressi...
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In the following essay, Johnston considers the varied subject matter of Roosevelt's writings.
As a man of action rather than a man of letters, Colonel Roosevelt has in our American year of 1898...
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In the following essay, Tuttleton investigates the significance of a reference to Theodore Roosevelt in Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence as well as the author's lifelong acquai...
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In the following review, Burton discusses a likeness he perceives in the attitudes and ideas of Roosevelt and the poet Edward Arlington Robinson.
Theodore Roosevelt's chance reading in 1905 of ...
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In the following essay, Zyskind studies Roosevelt as an example of a public figure who embodied conflicting views and qualities whose source of may be found in the nature of philosophic rhetoric.
The ...
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In the following essay, Gibson outlines the affinities and conflicts between Roosevelt and Mark Twain.
Although in 1906 Mark Twain remarked that he had known Theodore Roosevelt "for certainly t...
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In the following essay, Gershenowitz defends the authority of Jack London as a naturalist with respect to Roosevelt's criticism of him as a "Nature-Faker."
The controversy between...
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In the following essay, Cooper traces Roosevelt's development as a historian.
The most casual visitor to Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, cannot fail to grasp two ...
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In the following essay, Burton examines the influences that formed Roosevelt's prose style.
On 7 June 1910, in the Sheldonian Theatre of the University of Oxford, ex-President Theodore Roosevel...
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In the following essay, Aaron charts the declining image and reputation of Roosevelt as a public figure.
Four gigantic presidential heads, the work of the American-born sculptor Gutzon Borglum, look o...
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In the following essay, Klein discusses the figure of the cowboy as portrayed in various works by Roosevelt.
Imperialism was a principle. In his Foreword to the 1900 edition of his The Winning of the ...
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In the following essay, originally published in History as Literature in 1913, Roosevelt argues that historical writing should retain a distinct literary aspect as exemplified by the works of the grea...
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In the following essay, Beers praises Roosevelt for his ability to translate his experiences as a man of action into a body of literary works.
In a club corner, just after Roosevelt's death, th...
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An American critic, playwright, novelist, and educator, Matthews wrote extensively on world drama. In the following essay, originally published in 1919, he examines Roosevelt's multifaceted cha...
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Mencken was one of the most influential figures in American literature from the First World War until the early years of the Great Depression. His strongly individualistic, irreverent outlook on life ...
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In the following essay, Miller offers a critical view of Roosevelt's historical works.
The career of historian was the first to which young Roosevelt, newly graduated from Harvard, turned his a...
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Schlesinger is a prominent American historian and an influential figure in liberal politics. As a special assistant to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he was instrumental in formulating...
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In the following essay, Lewis explains his reasons for considering The Winning of the West a failure both as literature and as history.
The incongruity of Harvard-educated Theodore Roosevelt in the Ba...
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An American educator and critic, Moers is the author of The Dandy: Brummel to Beerbohm (1960) and Literary Women (1976). In the following essay, she documents Roosevelt's relationship to New Yo...
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Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City. In his lifetime, he accomplished many different things and change the worlds prospective of America for the better. Theodore Roosev...
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He was a man known by many, a man esteemed by most, one who could draw a crowd with his passion for life, and one who led our country with pride. Theodore Roosevelt's devotion to everything he did wa...
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Between the presidencies of Lincoln and McKinnely, no American president left a significant impact on the shape of democracy. Justly, Theodore Roosevelt is the president who shaped the position for t...
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The Modern Presidency:
An Evolution
The presidency of the United Sates of America has been an evolving office since the term of our first president, George Washington. This evolution has occurred...
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"It is true of the nation as of the individual that the greatest doer must also be the greatest dreamer." (Theodore Roosevelt, Berkeley, CA, 1911) It was President Roosevelt's way of modern thinking,...
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) American Politician and Conservationist
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