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A most glorious ride : the diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886 / edited by Edward P. Kohn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Excelsior editionsPublisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xii, 284 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1438455135
  • 9781438455136
Uniform titles:
  • Diaries. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: Theodore Roosevelt's life until 1877 -- Harvard: volume I, 1877 -- "Trust in the Lord, and do good": volume II, 1878 -- Chestnut Hill: volume III, 1879 -- Married: volume IV, 1880 -- Politics: volume V, 1881 -- Albany: volume VI, 1882 -- Albany and "Dakotah": volume VII, 1883 -- "The light has gone out of my life": volume VIII, 1884 -- "E.K.C.": volume IX, 1886 -- Conclusion: Theodore Roosevelt's life after 1886.
Summary: 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 the same day. The diaries chronicle his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. With his descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera, they offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York. They also recount Roosevelt's first birding and hunting trips to the Adirondacks, the Maine woods, and the American West. Ending with Roosevelt's secret engagement to his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, A Most Glorious Ride provides an intimate look into the life of the man who would become America's twenty-sixth president. Brought together for the first time in a single volume, the diaries have been meticulously transcribed, annotated, and introduced by Edward P. Kohn. Twenty-four black-and-white photographs are also included.
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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 the same day. The diaries chronicle his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. With his descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera, they offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York. They also recount Roosevelt's first birding and hunting trips to the Adirondacks, the Maine woods, and the American West. Ending with Roosevelt's secret engagement to his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, A Most Glorious Ride provides an intimate look into the life of the man who would become America's twenty-sixth president.



Brought together for the first time in a single volume, the diaries have been meticulously transcribed, annotated, and introduced by Edward P. Kohn. Twenty-four black-and-white photographs are also included.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-272) and index.

Introduction: Theodore Roosevelt's life until 1877 -- Harvard: volume I, 1877 -- "Trust in the Lord, and do good": volume II, 1878 -- Chestnut Hill: volume III, 1879 -- Married: volume IV, 1880 -- Politics: volume V, 1881 -- Albany: volume VI, 1882 -- Albany and "Dakotah": volume VII, 1883 -- "The light has gone out of my life": volume VIII, 1884 -- "E.K.C.": volume IX, 1886 -- Conclusion: Theodore Roosevelt's life after 1886.

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 the same day. The diaries chronicle his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. With his descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera, they offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York. They also recount Roosevelt's first birding and hunting trips to the Adirondacks, the Maine woods, and the American West. Ending with Roosevelt's secret engagement to his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, A Most Glorious Ride provides an intimate look into the life of the man who would become America's twenty-sixth president. Brought together for the first time in a single volume, the diaries have been meticulously transcribed, annotated, and introduced by Edward P. Kohn. Twenty-four black-and-white photographs are also included.

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