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Subject(s)

• Presidents—United States—Biography [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government—1901-1909 [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government—1909-1913 [Browse]
• Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 [Browse]

Related name

• Ricard, Serge [Browse]

Series

• Blackwell companions to American history. [More in this series]
• American presidents series (Times Books (Firm)) [More in this series]
• American presidents

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Intro
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• INTRODUCTION: AN ALL-TIME HISTORIAN'S FAVORITE
• Chapter One: THE EDUCATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
• Chapter Two: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EARLY POLITICAL CAREER: THE MAKING OF AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN AND URBAN PROGRESSIVE
• Chapter Three: THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR HERO
• Assistant Secretary of the Navy
• The Rough Rider
• Las Guasimas
• San Juan Hill
• The Round Robin
• The War Hero
• Chapter Four: THE ROUGH RIDER AS SUPER-POLITICIAN: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ASCENDANCY ON THE NATIONAL POLITICAL STAGE
• Introduction
• Boss Platt and the Limits of Governance in Nineteenth-Century Politics
• The First "Super-Politician"
• The Roosevelt Governorship 1899-1901
• Battles Won
• The Path to the Vice-Presidency
• Conclusions
• Chapter Five: PREPAREDNESS AND DEFENSE: THE ORIGINS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S STRATEGY FOR THE UNITED STATES ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE
• The 1880s: The Naval War of 1812
• Captain Mahan and TR
• Washington's Forgotten Maxim, Naval War College, June 1897
• Conclusion
• Chapter Six: ROOSEVELT'S REPUBLIC
• Chapter Seven: SEX AND GENDER IN ROOSEVELT'S AMERICA
• Chapter Eight: "A SERIOUS ART AND LITERATURE OF OUR OWN": EXPLORING THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ART WORLD
• Chapter Nine: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND THE REGULATION OF THE MARKET
• Acting in the Public Interest
• The Trustbuster
• Regulating the Railroads
• Presidential Power and the Common Law
• Federal Regulation and the Idea of a Just Society
• Chapter Ten: THE QUALITY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ENVIRONMENTALISM
• Preservationism and Conservationism
• Prudence
• Roosevelt's Environmental Policies
• Roosevelt's Prudence
• Conclusion.
• Chapter Eleven: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE INDIANS
• Indians and Savagery
• Bases for Ideas
• Political Career
• Imperialism
• Chapter Twelve: "HALF A SOUTHERNER": PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE SOUTH
• Mixed Tidings
• Theories of Race
• The Exceptional Few
• Justice for Some
• A Southern Strategy
• Chapter Thirteen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE PRESS
• Chapter Fourteen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE JOYS OF FAMILY LIFE
• "Teedie's" First Family
• The Joys (and Sorrows) of Family Life
• War, Separation, and Public Service
• Life with Father
• The Children's White House Adventures
• Fatherly Advice to Older Children
• Life after the Presidency
• "Everybody Works but Father!"
• Chapter Fifteen: THE GLOBAL STRATEGIST: THE NAVY AS THE NATION'S BIG STICK
• American Sea Power
• Navalism and National Strategy
• The Naval War with Spain
• Imperial President
• The Big Stick
• Chapter Sixteen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, THE PANAMA CANAL, AND THE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY: SPHERE OF INFLUENCE DIPLOMACY
• "The Most Important Action"
• "The Center of the Universe"
• "Its Fiat Is Law"
• "Those Contemptible Little Creatures"
• "To Cease Stamping Out the Fuses"
• "Keen-eyed French Duelist"
• "A Mandate from Civilization"
• "International Police Power"
• Chapter Seventeen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND CANADA: ALASKA, THE "BIG STICK" AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC TRIANGLE, 1901-1909
• The Alaska Debate
• The Origins of the Alaska Dispute
• The Purchase of Alaska, 1867
• Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush, 1897
• The Advent of Roosevelt, September 1901
• The Alaska Boundary Tribunal, 1903
• Was Canada "Big Sticked"?
• Cleaning the Slate, 1905-1909
• The North Atlantic Triangle
• Chapter Eighteen: ANGLO-AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP: THE FOUNDATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S FOREIGN POLICY.
• Theodore Roosevelt's World View
• The Rooseveltian Touch
• A Special Relationship in the Making
• Confirming the New Partnership
• Damage-Control Diplomacy
• An Anglo-American Binationalist
• Extolling the British Empire
• Chapter Nineteen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" WITH FRANCE
• Introduction: The Ironies of the Missing Street
• What Franco-American "Special Relationship"?
• America, France, and the Global Balance of Power
• Roosevelt as "Friend of France"
• Chapter Twenty: AMERICA'S FIRST INTERVENTION IN EUROPEAN POLITICS: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE EUROPEAN CRISIS OF 1905-1906
• Chapter Twenty-One: THE END OF AN ERA: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH
• Reevaluating the Nobel Peace Prize Winner
• Theodore Roosevelt's "Modest Proposals"
• Wielding the Big Stick
• Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War
• The Rooseveltian Legacy
• Chapter Twenty-Two: JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS: THE 1906 CALIFORNIA CRISIS, THE GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT, AND THE WORLD CRUISE
• Domestic Determinants
• Roosevelt's Predicament
• The President's Two-Pronged Response to the Crisis
• Diplomacy and Deterrence
• Chapter Twenty-Three: "UPLIFTING THE BARBARIAN"
• Roosevelt, Imperialism, and Race
• Civilization and Self-Improvement
• Civilization and Uplift in Practice
• India, Africa, and the Middle East
• Civilization, Modernization, and the American Way
• Chapter Twenty-Four: ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA
• Chapter Twenty-Five: THE NEW NATIONALISM AND PROGRESSIVE ISSUES: THE BREAK WITH TAFT AND THE 1912 CAMPAIGN
• An Active and Popular Ex-President
• A Growing Rift with Taft
• By Popular Demand?: TR's Entry into the Race
• By Popular Demand: The Primary Campaign
• Eventful Conventions
• An Energetic and Intense Bull Moose Campaign
• An Extraordinary Campaign.
• Chapter Twenty-Six: THE GREAT WAR, AMERICANISM REVISITED, AND THE ANTI-WILSON CRUSADE
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S CONTRADICTORY LEGACIES: FROM IMPERIALIST NATIONALISM TO ADVOCACY OF A PROGRESSIVE WELFARE STATE
• The Common Roots of TR's Imperialism and His Commitment to a Modern Welfare State
• President Roosevelt's Attempts to Build a Stronger State at Home and Abroad
• TR and the Pressure to Keep Up with International Reform
• TR the Retrenching Imperialist Becomes TR the Defender of an American Welfare State
• The Gradual Moderation of TR's Imperialism Coincided with his Increasing Progressivism
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: THE MEMORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT THROUGH MOTION PICTURES
• Silent Films, Shorts, and World War II
• Television, Blockbusters, and the Cold War
• Documentaries and the Trends of a New Century
• CONCLUSION: A ROOSEVELTIAN CENTURY?
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX.

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ISBN

• 1-4443-4423-4
• 1-4443-4420-X
• 1-118-38782-1
• 9786613258335
• 1-78268-720-3
• 1-283-25833-1
• 1-4443-4421-8

OCLC

759159286

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