The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America - Hardcover

Marrin, Albert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525476598 ISBN 13: 9780525476597

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile, 2007

Synopsis

We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst . . . but we felt the hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living.

?Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt is one of America?s liveliest and most influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Roosevelt?s far-reaching policies abroad and at home forever changed both our nation?s place in the world and the life of every modern American.

Fascinating details and an intimate, fast-paced narrative explore the heroic life and complex world of an American icon.

About this title

About the Author:

Albert Marrin is a much-decorated historian and writer whose most recent book, Terror of the Spanish Main, was called "addictive reading" in The Horn Book. He lives in Riverdale, New York.

From Booklist:

Along the lines of his George Washington and the Founding of a Nation (2001), Marrin offers a twin portrait of American society in a time of profound change and the life of a figure so dominant in the politics and self-image of the time that he has become an enduring symbol. A polymath who published some 18 million words and was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize, Roosevelt (no one who knew him well called him "Teddy") was also given to dancing exultantly around the big game he slaughtered, and to blasting (in print) the presidents who succeeded him. Marrin gives him "a place in the front rank of our country's heroes," particularly for his achievements in environmental conservation, but also shows him acting badly—for example in the shameful Brownsville incident. Numerous endnotes and contemporary photos and prints add to this scholarly profile, which, like Betsy Harvey Kraft's Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit (2003), will give serious history students a solid grounding in the man's times, career, and forceful character. Peters, John

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0525476598
• ISBN 13: 9780525476597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256