Theodore Roosevelt, an Intimate Biography
Nothing better illustrates the elasticity of American democratic life than the fact that within a span of forty years Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were Presidents of the United States. Two men more unlike in origin, in training, and in opportunity, could hardly be found. Lincoln came from an incompetent Kentuckian father, a pioneer without the pioneer's spirit of enterprise and push; he lacked schooling; he had barely the necessaries of life measured even by the standards of the Border; his compa-nions were rough frontier wastrels, many of whom had either been, or might easily become, ruffians. The books on which he fed his you…
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Weitere Autoren: William Roscoe Thayer / 1stworld Library (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4218-4671-2
- EAN: 9781421846712
- Produktnummer: 3148359
- Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.0 cm 470 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 470
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