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Laddar... T.R.: The Last Romantic (utgåvan 1998)av H. W. Brands
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. this is the 1st Teddy Bio I've read, so I cannot compare it to others. At over 800 pages, I was still left feeling that I'd barely skimmed the surface. Would have liked more detail on his time in Africa and the Amazon, but really, eveything was given fairly even coverage ( ) An excellent biography of a complicated man. It is based on TR's voluminous correspondence. This is an unvarnished look at a giant in American history. Here is the romantic hero that has attained near folk legend status. Here also in a man of enormous ego. Here is a man deeply impacted by the death's of loved ones (his father, while he was a young man; his first wife and mother, at the same time, and shortly after the birth of his daughter; and his son on the "glorious" battlefield near the end of his own life). Brands neither overstates TR's accomplishments, nor overstates his character flaws. It is a very readable 800+ pages, filled with the very words of the man. A giant biography of a giant man. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"In his time there was no national figure more popular than Theodore Roosevelt. It was not only the energy he brought to political office that made him so popular, or his unshakable moral convictions, or even his stature as an authentic war her othe colonel who led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. Though scion of a privileged New York family, he was a man with an uncommon common touch. Theodore Roosevelt was loved by the American people because he loved them." "Yet, as H.W. Brands shows in this biography, an examination of the private life of Roosevelt reveals an individual whose great public strengths hid troubling personal deficiencies. His uncompromising moralism frequently dismayed friends and alienated those who might have been allies. His speeches and writings, reflecting a temperament obsessively full of itself, became targets of fierce satire. His historical works, paeans to heroism, typically displayed a fierce and belligerent nationalism." "Even more revealing is Roosevelt as son, brother, husband, and father." "The compelling drama of Theodore Roosevelt's life continues to fascinate readers, and H.W. Brands, employing a wealth of private letters and previously unpublished material, tells his story as no biographer before him has."--Jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.911092History and Geography North America United States 1901- Roosevelt Through Truman Administrations Theodore Roosevelt (14 Sep. 1901-4 Mar. 1909)Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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