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Contributors:

   H. W. Brands

Publisher:

   Basic Books

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1997
Subjects:   Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919, Presidents--United States--Biography
Table of contents
Prologue vii
ONE A Child of the Civil War: 1858-65 3
TWO Foreign Ventures: 1865-73 19
THREE Oyster Bay: 1873-76 44
FOUR Anxious Underclassman: 1876-77 54
FIVE A Man of His Own: 1877-78 75
SIX First Love: 1878-81 94
SEVEN Crashing the Party: 1881-83 123
EIGHT The Light That Failed: 1883-86 160
NINE From the Little Missouri to the Potomac: 1886-89 193
TEN Strategic Alliances: 1890-95 236
ELEVEN On the Beat: 1895-96 272
TWELVE The Cockpit of Empire: 1896-98 302
THIRTEEN The Hero in His Element: 1898 333
FOURTEEN Gunpowder Governor: 1898-99 358
FIFTEEN On Their Heads: 1899-1901 388
SIXTEEN Suddenly in the Saddle: 1901 417
SEVENTEEN Hand to Hand with the Coal Kings: 1902 434
EIGHTEEN The Kaiser and the Canal: 1902-3 463
NINETEEN The Life of the Party: 1904 489
TWENTY The Logic of Power: 1904-5 514
TWENTY-ONE Square Dealing: 1905-6 541
TWENTY-TWO Neither War nor Quite Peace: 1906-7 567
TWENTY-THREE Heir Apparenting: 1907 593
TWENTY-FOUR The Breathless End of a Rousing Run: 1908-9 614
TWENTY-FIVE Lions and Lesser Royalty: 1909-10 641
TWENTY-SIX Retirement Ruined: 1910-11 664
TWENTY-SEVEN To the Barricades Once More: 1912 691
TWENTY-EIGHT The River of Doubt: 1913-14 725
TWENTY-NINE The Irregular's Return: 1914-16 747
THIRTY The One They Left Behind: 1916-18 773
THIRTY-ONE The Last Romantic: 1918-19 802
Sources 817
Selected Bibliography 863
Acknowledgments 868
Index 869
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ROCKEFELLER, NELSON ALDRICH 1908 79, U.S. public official, governor of New York (1959 73), Vice President of the United States (1974 77), b. Bar Harbor, Maine; grandson of John D. Rockefeller . A director of Rockefeller Center from 1931...Inter-American Affairs (1940 44), chairman of the International Development Advisory Board (1950 51), and chairman of the Presidents Advisory Committee on Government Organization (1952 58). A Republican, he defeated (1958) W. Averell Harriman...Future of Federalism (1968), Unity, Freedom and Peace (1968), and Our Environment Can Be Saved (1970). See biography by C. Reich (1996). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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