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The Rough Riders : an autobiography / Theodore Roosevelt ; Louis Auchincloss, [editor].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 153.Publication details: New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, ©2004.Description: 895 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1931082650
  • 9781931082655
Contained works:
  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography
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Contents:
An autobiography: Boyhood and youth -- The vigor of life -- Practical politics -- In cowboy land -- Applied idealism -- The New York police -- The war of America the unready -- The New York governorship -- Outdoors and indoors -- The presidency; making an old party progressive -- The natural resources of the nation -- The big stick and the square deal -- Social and industrial justice -- The Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Canal -- The peace of righteousness.
The Rough Riders: Raising the regiment -- To Cuba -- General Young's fight at Las Guasimas -- The cavalry at Santiago -- In the trenches -- The return home -- Muster-out roll -- Colonel Roosevelt's report to the Secretary of War of September 10th -- The "round robin" letter -- Corrections.
Summary: Brings together the autobiographical works of The Rough Riders, in which Roosevelt leads the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish-American War, and An Autobiography, in which the youngest-ever president describes his life in politics, the emergence of his progressive ideas, and his role in establishing America as a world power.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Reformer, rancher, conservationist, hunter, historian, police commissioner, soldier, the youngest man ever to serve as President of the United States--no other American public figure has led as vigorous and varied a life as Theodore Roosevelt. This Library of America volume brings together two of his most memorable autobiographical works.

The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame during the Spanish-American War. With his characteristic élan he recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of privileged Northeastern college men and hardened Southwestern frontiersmen--"these grim hunters of the mountains, these wild rough riders of the plains"--and how it trained in Texas and then "sailed southward through the tropic seas toward the unknown." Writing at the time when war could still be seen as a romantic adventure, Roosevelt vividly describes the confusion of fighting in the jung≤ the heat, hunger, rain, mud, and malaria of the Cuban campaign; and his "crowded hour" of triumph on the San Juan Heights during the Battle of Santiago.

In An Autobiography (1913), Roosevelt recalls his lifelong fascination with natural history, his love of hunting and the outdoors, and his adventures as a cattleman in the Dakota Badlands, as well as his career in politics as a state legislator, civil service reformer, New York police commissioner, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and president. Roosevelt writes of his battles against corruption, his efforts to establish America as a world power, his passionate commitment to conservation, and his growing conviction that only a strong national government and an energetic presidency could protect the public against the rapacious greed of modern corporations. Combining vivid and amusing anecdotes with clear and eloquent statements of progressive principles, An Autobiography is a classic American memoir.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

First work originally published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1899. 2nd work originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1913.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An autobiography: Boyhood and youth -- The vigor of life -- Practical politics -- In cowboy land -- Applied idealism -- The New York police -- The war of America the unready -- The New York governorship -- Outdoors and indoors -- The presidency; making an old party progressive -- The natural resources of the nation -- The big stick and the square deal -- Social and industrial justice -- The Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Canal -- The peace of righteousness.

The Rough Riders: Raising the regiment -- To Cuba -- General Young's fight at Las Guasimas -- The cavalry at Santiago -- In the trenches -- The return home -- Muster-out roll -- Colonel Roosevelt's report to the Secretary of War of September 10th -- The "round robin" letter -- Corrections.

Brings together the autobiographical works of The Rough Riders, in which Roosevelt leads the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish-American War, and An Autobiography, in which the youngest-ever president describes his life in politics, the emergence of his progressive ideas, and his role in establishing America as a world power.

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