Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (627 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345806115 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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If his books are not to today’s tastes, they nevertheless capture TR’s aim for accuracy and objectivity. In a collection of 24-plus items, readers can range from Roosevelt’s advice on raising boys, opinion about professional sports, and accounts of hunting bears to his invocations of political principles for the public issues of his time. A judicious anthology well suited to the TR shelf. In addition to excerpts from his histories, including The Winning of the West, “among his greatest achievements as a writer,” according to Hutner, this varied volume includes a TR speech on historiography. --Gilbert Taylor . In addition to TR’s varied interests, Hutner primes readers with insightful introductions to Roosevelt’s prose style, which was as muscular and direct as was his advo
He founded in 1989 and is the editor of the journal American Literary History, and is considered “one of the most influential editors of his generation.” He is the author of What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960. He also edited the volume Immigrant Voices: Twenty-Four Narratives on Becoming an American and American Literature, Americ
Collected here in one volume are examples of Roosevelt’s voluminous writings over a dazzling array of topics. Organized by general categories, readers can sample writings on subjects as varied as the environment, the danger of professional sports; the famous charge of San Juan Hill, and Roosevelt’s passion for literary criticism. From addresses and presidential messages on public policy and national ideals, to biography, to travel writing, to ecological concerns, to writings on hunting, to international politics and history, Roosevelt’s talents and achievements as a writer went far beyond what we now expect of our public leaders. Roosevelt’s legacy as one of the first progressive American politicians, his concerns about environmentalism, his internationalism, and his unflinching belief in the American character and destiny uncannily speak to the issues of our own day and can be found in the pages of this representative and judicious anthology of his work.. Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was our most published president with an incredible output of writing including forty books, over a thousand articles, and countless speeches and letters
"Speaking Not So Softly" according to Samuel J. Sharp. This is a superb collection of essays on diverse topics, organized by theme and well-introduced by introductory notes from the editors. The essays capture Roosevelt's original vision for citizenship, conservation, foreign policy, and economic regulation. Readers will appreciate the forcefulness of Roosevelt's writing and the steeliness of his convictions. I strongly recommend this book to readers interested in Roosevelt, presidential history, or American political thought generally.