| Author/Contributor(s): | Ruddy, Daniel |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Date: | 5/10/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“A splendid piece of work.”
— Edmund Morris
In a unique project, author Daniel Ruddy has carefully extracted Teddy Roosevelt’s most relevant and telling comments—from letters, books, speeches, and other sources—and organized them to form a fairly full, always colorful, and highly opinionated history of the United States up to 1919 (the year TR died).
Ruddy gathers these pungent observations—spanning from the American Revolution to the First World War—to trace how the twenty-sixth president judged both towering statesmen and bitter political rivals.
Drawing strictly upon Roosevelt’s voluminous letters and published works, the text presents an unvarnished chronicle of the nation’s past—moving from frontier skirmishes on the Little Missouri to the halls of the White House—without interpolating a single external argument.
With a preface by Theodore Rex author Edmund Morris.
- U.S. Presidents: Roosevelt delivers unsparing verdicts on chief executives from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to his bitter personal feud with William Howard Taft.
- Civil War History: The collection highlights his deep reverence for Abraham Lincoln alongside sharp assessments of generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant.
- Military History: TR dissects the tactical disasters of the War of 1812 and recounts his own battlefield command of the Rough Riders at Las Guasimas and San Juan Hill.
- Raw Honesty: Unfiltered commentary drawn from private correspondence takes aim at figures ranging from Thomas Paine to Woodrow Wilson without polite academic hedging.