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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt & the Dawn of the American Century: ""I will tolerate no assault upon the navy or upon the honor of the country""‎

‎3/9/07. <blockquote><p>“.nor will I permit anything so fraught with menace as the usurpation by any clique of Wall Street senators of my function as Commander-in-Chief."".</p><p>With an original cartoon that Roosevelt himself cut out and sent with the letter</p></blockquote><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-32065 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20240907141318/T-Roosevelt-Sept-3-1907-1-1-1-1600x579.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""579"" /></p><p>In 1898 at the end of the Spanish-American War the United States was thrust into the mainstream of international affairs and gained status as a world power acquiring as possessions the Philippines and Guam in the Pacific then Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. In 1901 Theodore Roosevelt brought to the White House a deep conviction that only through a strong navy could a nation project its power and prestige abroad. At his behest from 1904 to 1907 American shipyards turned out 11 new battleships to give the Navy awesome battle capabilities. This was timely because in 1907 hostilities with Japan seemed possible and the Japanese navy dominated the Pacific. America's problems with Japan arose shortly after TR mediated the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War. In that conflict the Russian fleet had been annihilated by the Japanese but despite their triumphs over the Russians on the high seas the Japanese failed to get all they felt they deserved at the peace table and blamed Roosevelt for it. In the same year anti-Japanese feelings were sweeping California and the San Francisco Board of Education ordered the segregation of all immigrant and descendent Japanese school children. When the news of this reached Japan violent anti-American protests broke out. Roosevelt managed to persuade the Board of Education to discontinue its segregation policy in exchange for an agreement with Japan to slow down its stream of immigrants into the United States.</p><p>Roosevelt developed a plan to send the navy around the world expecting both to impress foreign nations serve as a warning to potential adversaries and provide the American people with an example of US naval prepardness strength and range. Such an impression he hoped would help him get the desired appropriations for even more battleships. Not everyone approved of the idea of sending the fleet on this cruise. Some critics were against this show of force while others were worried that the Atlantic naval defenses would be weakened by taking away so many ships. In Congress opponents like anti-Roosevelt Republican Senator Eugene Hale chairman of the Naval Appropriations Committee threatened to withhold money for the cruise. But this didn't bother Roosevelt who replied that it would proceed anyway.</p><p>Roosevelt came to office in a progressive era when corporate monopolies and conspiracies price fixing discriminatory commercial preferences and outright dishonest business practices were being recognized as problems that needed to be addressed. The new President believed strongly that the government could give Americans a more just and equitable society and to do this he needed to bring order and fair dealings to industry and commerce. He broke presidential ground by establishing a detailed program to “effectively control and regulate all big combinations†calling it the Square Deal. He created the Bureau of Corporations with the power to investigate businesses engaged in interstate commerce pursued this policy of “trust-busting†by initiating suits against 44 major corporations managed passage of the Elkins Act that regularized railroad rates and prohibited discriminatory practices and fought for and obtained regulation of food and drugs. Against the opposition of businesses seeking to exploit natural resources he advocated conservation and set aside vast government lands to strictly public use. Just as importantly he attacked the corruption in government that allowed the abuses he now sought to end.</p><p>But Roosevelt went a step farther than indicting business he was an outspoken opponent of those he called malefactors of great weath who used their power for evil purposes. As early as 1895 he wrote “Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American insensible to every duty regardless of every principle bent only on amassing a fortune.†In 1906 TR complained “I do not like the social conditions at present. The dull purblind folly of the very rich men their greed and arrogance.and the corruption in business and politics have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.†For these sentiments and personal assaults on them and their entire way of life the very rich hated Theodore Roosevelt as they would his cousin Franklin thirty years later.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-32066 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20240907141350/T-Roosevelt-Sept-3-1907-1-2-1600x903.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""903"" /></p><p>Wall Street was controlled by fewer men then and they were mainly well acquainted. Many belonged to the same clubs where they would meet to express their antipathy to Roosevelt and his policies. When from January 1906-November 1907 there was a decline in the stock market that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average lose 48% of its value TR in a speech on August 20 1907 blamed the financial elites for fomenting that loss. â€It may well be that the determination of the government in which gentlemen it will not waver to punish certain malefactors of great wealth has been responsible for something of the trouble; at least to the extent of having caused these men to combine to bring about as much financial stress as possible in order to discredit the policy of the government and thereby secure a reversal of that policy so that they may enjoy unmolested the fruits of their own evil-doing.I regard this contest as one to determine who shall rule this free country—the people through their governmental agents or a few ruthless and domineering men whose wealth makes them peculiarly formidable because they hide behind the breastworks of corporate organization.â€</p><p>A few days later in its issue of August 28 1907 the satirical magazine Puck ran a cartoon entitled “Lunch Hour in Wall Street†with the left panel picturing five businessmen smugly enjoying their champagne and cigars over the caption “Before Roosevelt’s name is mentioned†and the right panel showing  them in a turmoil cursing and kicking over their champagne above the simple word “After.†It well illustrated the attitutde of business to TR at the time and he saw the cartoon and was much taken with it. He was unafraid of these powerful men and dared them to impeach him; they hated him for that as well.</p><p>Mentioned also in the letter: 1 for almost half a century the reformer and journalist Dr. Albert Shaw was the owner and editor of “The American Review of Reviews.†His magazine remains one of the best primary sources on American reform between 1890 and 1920 providing not only a panoramic view of the range of reformers' interests but also the ties between British and American progressives. 2 During his campaign in 1904 Roosevelt had declared that he would not run again yet with 1908 approaching many urged him to do so. 3 Mark Twain was one of TR’s favorite authors and a noted progressive. 4 Charles H. Moyer was president of the miners’ union and Big Bill Haywood was the union’s secretary. They were activists and in the forefront of advocating confrontation with the mine owners who badly wanted to be rid of them. In 1906 the two union leaders were arrested for murder on trumped up charges. Union sympathizers from all over the country vociferusly called upon the President to act to free them. Roosevelt was not an enemy of the union cause generally but disliked Haywood and Moyer for “preaching an industrial and social policy that is damaging to the best interests of the wage-workers of the country.†Clarence Darrow headed the Moyer/Haywood defense team and the men were ultimately acquitted.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-32069 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20240907142625/T-Roosevelt-Sept-3-1907-2-1-1-1600x1017.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1017"" /></p><p><strong>Typed Letter Signed</strong> on White House letterhead but datelined Oyster Bay N.Y. two pages September 3 1907 to Shaw packed with important commentary demonstrating his courage attacking the wealthy malefactors and Wall Street defending sending the White Fleet discussing Japan and ending with a mention of Mark Twain. <em>“Would you be willing to reproduce this cartoon from PuckPuck is entirely disinterested and as far as I know is rather unfavorable to me and the cartoon is simply a good illustration of the current mania in Wall Street. As regards myself the mania makes not one particle of difference. Unless I am impeached I shall be President for eighteen months and I shall most certainly not be President any longer and in all probability will hold no public office so that the hysterical violence of the attacks of the Wall Street crowd are of no possible consequence to me. But they have shown signs recently of getting into a condition not much better than that of the Moyer and Haywood people. The New York Sun for instance which is their most servile and most violent and most unscrupulous representative is as part of its campaign on behalf of the wealthy malefactor class trying to prevent the fleet from going to the Pacific. It cannot prevent it. I will tolerate no assault upon the navy or upon the honor of the country nor will I permit anything so fraught with menace as the usurpation by any clique of Wall Street senators of my function as Commander-in-Chief. You know far too much of foreign events and of the needs of the navy for it to be necessary for me to explain to you how important it is that we should now see by actual experiment just how our battle fleet can go to the Pacific and you perhaps know how useful the mere statement that it was going there has already been in quieting the clamor for hostilities against us by the Japanese yellow press. Can not you come here to lunch Friday the 13thMark Twain and Doubleday will be there.†</em>The original cartoon from Puck is included.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt; An Autobiography:in large print‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt; An Autobiography:in large print‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: Through the Brazilian Wilderness‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography Royal Collector's Edition Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: We are the Real Heirs to the Legacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Representatives of the People‎

‎24/01/1913. <blockquote><p>This is a new party one with no allegiance to a boss but just to the people: ""It is as idle to talk of our amalgamating with either of the old party machines as it would have been to talk of the Lincoln Republicans amalgamating either with the Bourbon Democrats or the Cotton Whigs of their day.""</p><p> </p><p>“There is no place in our ranks for the boss for the man who represents the alliance between privilege in business and privilege in politics… The only way they can efficiently fight for social and industrial justice for political and economic freedom for equality of opportunity is by joining the Progressive Party. They shall have exact equality of treatment with us without regard to whether they are ex-Democrats of ex-Republicans. We welcome all honest citizens to our ranks.â€</p></blockquote><p>Theodore Roosevelt first came to the presidency in 1901 following the assassination of William McKinley but won election in his own right in 1904 and proved an extremely popular chief executive. Shortly after the election of 1904 he announced that he would not be a candidate four years later—though he was so much the idol of the masses that he could easily have gained the Republican nomination in 1908. Adhering to his pledge however he arranged the nomination of his secretary of war William Howard Taft who was easily elected president in 1908. Taft faced a restless public and a split Republican Party. National progressivism was nearly at high tide and a large group of Republican progressives sat in both houses of Congress. These Republicans like a majority of Americans demanded reforms - such as tariff reductions an income tax the direct election of senators social justice and stricter railroad and corporation regulations. Taft was much more conservative philosophically than Roosevelt and failed to advance progressive ideals.</p><p>Republican insurgents were determined to prevent Taft’s renomination in 1912. They found their leader in Roosevelt who had become increasingly alienated from Taft and who made a whirlwind campaign for the presidential nomination in the winter and spring of 1912. TR swept the presidential primaries but Taft and conservative Republicans controlled the powerful state organizations and the Republican National Committee and when the Republicans gathered at their national convention in June 1912 it proved a bitter divisive affair. And so complete was Taft’s supporters’ control over the party machinery that delegate challenges made by Roosevelt were all beaten back—leading Roosevelt to refuse to have his name entered into nomination. Taft was nominated on the first ballot. Convinced that the bosses had stolen the nomination from him Roosevelt led his followers out of the Republican convention. In August they organized the Progressive “Bull Moose†Party and named Roosevelt to lead their third-party cause.</p><p>The Democrats emerged from their convention having nominated Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt and the Bull Moose movement stressed its progressive reform credentials even controversially backing women’s suffrage. For Taft his single objective in the 1912 campaign was to defeat Roosevelt. The real contest however was between Roosevelt and Wilson for control of the progressive majority. Campaigning strenuously on a platform that he called the New Nationalism Roosevelt demanded effective control of big business through a strong federal commission radical tax reform and a whole series of measures to put the federal government squarely into the business of social and economic reform.</p><p>On election day November 5 Roosevelt outpolled Taft but failed to win many Democratic progressives away from Wilson. Though Wilson captured only about 42 percent of the popular vote he won 435 electoral votes. Between them Roosevelt and Taft secured 7.6 million votes—1.3 million more than Wilson—but Roosevelt won only 88 electoral votes and Taft won only 8. Taft’s 8 electoral votes represented the worst performance by an incumbent seeking reelection. But the defeat was stinging for TR and the Progressives as well.</p><p>In the wake of the 1912 defeat TR worked hard to rally the troops continue to advocate progressive ideals and move the party forward. <strong>Typed letter signed</strong> two pages on his The Outlook letterhead New York January 24 1913 to W.C. McDonald of the Progressive Club of Worcester Mass. comparing the Progressives to the Lincoln Republicans whom he calls progressive highlighting their fight for social and industrial justice and for the public good over privilege. <em>“I earnestly wish I could be with you on January 28th to greet the Progressives of Worcester County. As this is impossible I send you a letter of good will.</em></p><p><em>“The Progressive Party stands today precisely where the Republican Party stood in the days of Lincoln when it was the progressive party of the nation. It is as idle to talk of our amalgamating with either of the old party machines as it would have been to talk of the Lincoln Republicans amalgamating either with the Bourbon Democrats or the Cotton Whigs of their day. We stand absolutely for our platform; we believe in applying the principles of that platform to party management as well as to the government. There is no place in our ranks for the boss for the man who represents the alliance between privilege in business and privilege in politics.</em></p><p><em>“I firmly believe that there are literally millions of progressives among the rank and file both of the Republican and Democratic parties and that these men will sooner or later realize that they can do nothing where they are and that the only way they can efficiently fight for social and industrial justice for political and economic freedom for equality of opportunity is by joining the Progressive Party. They shall have exact equality of treatment with us without regard to whether they are ex-Democrats of ex-Republicans. We welcome all honest citizens to our ranks.â€</em></p><p>TR adds a PS.<em> “P.S. I cannot join that club excepting as an honorary member because otherwise I should be required to join clubs all over the country. I have however signed the form you enclosed.â€</em></p><p>An extraordinary and moving letter comparing the Progressives to the party of Lincoln and laying out clearly what the Progressive Party stands for and who is welcome to join its ranks.</p><p>After the party's defeat in 1912 it went into rapid decline in elections disappearing by 1920. But its spirit and programs were not forgotten and would be resurrected with great success by TR’s cousin and nephew-in-law Franklin D. Roosevelt.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt an Autobiography‎

‎Charles Scribner's Sons. Good. 1922. Hardcover. Book plate inside front unmarked . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". P. Laszlo. Handsome prize-bound full-calf edition of the autobiography of eminent U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt. Handsomely bound in brown full calf with marbled endpapers.Prize binding of Cheltenham College with school emblem to front board and "Roosevelt Prize" bookplate to front paste down dated 1937.Frontispiece portrait of the author.The fascinating autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt twenty-sixth U.S. president. Roosevelt served from 1901 to 1909 and is often considered one of America's greatest leaders. Originally published in 1913 this work details Roosevelt's childhood and early career as well as his time in office. Handsomely bound in brown full calf with marbled endpapers. Prize binding of Cheltenham College with school emblem to front board and "Roosevelt Prize" bookplate to front paste down dated 1937. Externally very smart with slight bumping and rubbing leading to minor loss of leather and front joint beginning to crack and a few marks to boards. Internally firmly bound. Light spotting generally contained to first and last few pages leaving remainder of text very bright and clean. Very Good Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt's Original Manuscript of his Great 1911 ""Peace of Righteousness"" Work: ""The true lovers of peace. have been those who followed even though afar off in the footsteps of Washington and Lincoln.""‎

‎9/9/11. <blockquote><p>He wrote “We the people of the United States cannot and will not surrender to outsiders the power to determine whether or not we are fit to decide for ourselves what are our vital needs and what are the policies proper for meeting these needs. Only by acting on these principles only by following in the footsteps of these great Americans of the past can we of the present generation effectively work for and secure the peace of righteousness.""</p><p> </p><p>His original article from 1911 opposing President Taft in which he argued that while peace is desirable it must be a peace based on moral righteousness and justice not merely the absence of conflict</p><p> </p><p>21 pages of which 14 entirely handwritten; Entire manuscripts of Roosevelt are very rare this one having been in a private collection for generations</p></blockquote><p>As negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox the Taft Arbitration Treaties were signed on August 3 1911. They contained three significant features. First they did not exempt matters affecting vital interests or national honor. They applied to “all differences hereafter arising"" between the parties not settled by diplomatic means ""relating to international matters in which the contracting parties are concerned by virtue of a claim of right made by one against the other under treaty or otherwise…and which are justiciable in their nature."" Second the treaties explicitly invoked equity. An international dispute was deemed ""justiciable"" if it was ""susceptible of decision by the application of the principles of law or equity."" A third notable feature of the Taft Arbitration Treaties was their institutional mechanism for settling disagreements over whether a difference was subject to arbitration. If the parties disagreed about the justiciability of a dispute a Joint High Commission of Inquiry would consider the matter.</p><p>In other words it gave power to international arbiters over some aspects of US actions.</p><p>Theodore Roosevelt opposed the Taft treaties and instead advocated that a peace must be that of righteousness. Roosevelt and a few other high-profile opponents including Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan voiced themes like the importance of upholding national prestige and power and of furthering national goals. This disagreement between Taft and Roosevelt over the arbitration treaties was part of the wedge that drove them apart and led to TR’s running for president in 1912.</p><p>In The Outlook magazine on September 9 1911 in an article covered at the time by the New York Times TR assailed the Taft treaties of arbitration as making for peace without righteousness and as being hypocritical in that this country would not observe them in certain contingencies even though it agreed to them. He repeatedly emphasized his point that righteousness is more important than peace. He wrote ""It is one of our prime duties as a nation to seek peace. It is even a higher duty to seek righteousnessâ€. So while international peace is important pursuing moral righteousness and integrity is a superior national duty.</p><p>This is Roosevelt’s editorial article published in The Outlook. <strong>Typed article</strong> with substantial revisions in his hand 21 pages being the original draft of the article <strong>signed</strong> twice. The text reads in part:</p><p><em>""It is one of our prime duties as a Nation to seek peace. It is an even higher duty to seek righteousness. It is also our duty not to indulge in shams not to make believe we are getting peace by some patent contrivance which sensible men ought to know cannot work in practice and which if we sought to make it work might cause irretrievable harm. I sincerely believe in the principle of arbitration; I believe in applying that principle so far as practicable; but I believe that the effort to apply it where it is not practicable cannot do good and may do serious harm. Confused thinking and a willingness to substitute words for thought even though inspired by an entirely amiable sentimentality do not tend toward sound action.</em></p><p><em>""I think that the great majority of those persons who advocate any and every treaty which is called a treaty for peace or for arbitration would be less often drawn into a position that tends to humiliate their country if they would take the trouble to formulate clearly and definitely just what it is that they desire. Of course there are persons wholly indifferent to the National honor and interest who in consequence cannot be reached by an appeal to National honor and interest; and there are other persons whose ingrained personal timidity is such that they are more afraid of war than of any dishonor personal or National.â€</em></p><p>TR goes on to stress peace only with righteousness. <em>“We the American people believe and ought to believe in righteousness first and in peace as the handmaid of righteousness. We abhor brutality and wrongdoing whether exhibited by nations or by individuals. We hold that the same law of righteousness should obtain between nation and nation as between man and man. I for one would rather cut off my hand than see the United States adopt the attitude either of cringing before great and powerful nations who wish to wrong us or by bullying small and weak nations who have done us no wrong.â€</em></p><p><em>""The American people desire to do justice and to act with frank generosity toward all the other nations of mankind; but I err greatly in my judgment of my countrymen if they are willing to submit to wrong and injustice. Again and again in the past they have shown and rightly shown that when the choice lay between righteousness and peace they chose righteousness just exactly as they also chose righteousness when the choice lay between righteousness and war.""</em></p><p>Roosevelt cites the Revolutionary War the Civil War and the Spanish-American war as instances in which we put righteousness above peace. He also cites the existing arbitration treaties between the United States Great Britain and France as better than the proposed treaties because they make no false pretenses and exclude questions affecting our vital interests independence or honor. He continues:</p><p><em>""Does the proposal in the treaties if entered into with various nations bind us to arbitrate the Monroe Doctrine the Platt amendment with Cuba the payment of State bonds to European bondholders the question whether various European countries are entitled to the same concessions that Canada is to receive under the reciprocity agreement the right of other foreign nations to interfere in Panama our own right to exclude any immigrants whom we choose to exclude If these questions arose I am sure our representatives would privately or publicly inform foreign powers and indeed would have to inform foreign powers that the American people would never abide by an agreement to arbitrate them; in which case the only proper course to follow is that followed by the Senate Committee and to say in honest fashion that there are certain questions which this Nation will not arbitrate at the dictation of an outside body.</em></p><p><em>""Most men of knowledge who are willing to think know perfectly well that this country would not as a matter of fact keep an agreement to arbitrate all questions of vital honor and interest even though it were so unwise as to make it; and it is a wicked thing to put us in the position of promising what will not and cannot be performed. In such a matter the indulgence of false pretense in the present would with absolute certainty be followed by the breaking of faith in the future.</em></p><p><em>""The fatally objectionable feature of the proposed treaty is the clause providing that the Joint High Commission which may be composed exclusively of 'nationals of the two countries but which also may be composed exclusively of foreigners may by unanimous vote or by a vote of all but one of its members determine that any given question whatever must be arbitrated. It is difficult to characterize this provision truthfully without seeming to be offensive. Merely to speak of it as silly comes far short of saying what should be said.</em></p><p><em>""We the people of the United States cannot and will not surrender to outsiders the power to determine whether or not we are fit to decide for ourselves what are our vital needs and what are the policies proper for meeting these needs. In other words Uncle Sam does not intend to wrong any one but neither does he intend to bind himself if his pocket is picked his house burglarized or his face slapped to arbitrate with the wrongdoer and as long as he does not intend so to bind himself it would be offensive hypocrisy for him to say that he will so bind himself.</em></p><p><em>""The true lovers of peace the men who have really helped onward the movement for peace have been those who followed even though afar off in the footsteps of Washington and Lincoln and stood for righteousness as the supreme end of National life. Only by acting on these principles only by following in the footsteps of these great Americans of the past can we of the present generation effectively work for and secure the peace of righteousness.""</em></p><p>A very important statement in which Roosevelt articulates his philosophy and a foreign policy that demanded high moral standards and strength rather than pacifism. This perspective often referred to as the ""peace of righteousness"" was crucial to his view of America's role on the world stage ensuring that national honor and international justice were prioritized.</p><p>Sheets affixed to leaves of the book into which they are bound.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt=""historical memorabilia dealer"" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt an autobiography‎

‎Grand Central Publishing 1985. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Theodore Roosevelt</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Grand Central Publishing</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780306802324</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1985</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 636</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Theodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve panache and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history--not even Jefferson--had so many opinions and intellectual interests believed in so many causes or worked so hard to translate his beliefs into action. A hard-headed idealist an unabashed interventionist a crusader on behalf of environmental preservation and against big business "trusts" he was also a writer of uncommon grace and passion with a gift for the memorable phrase. His autobiography one of the two or three finest ever written by a U.S. president abounds in exciting episodes of personal transformation and insights into the bitter politics of the day. Roosevelt was a sickly youth who steeled himself for a life of vigor growing up surrounded by wealth in nineteenth-century Manhattan but vacationing in the West where he rode with cowboys and learned to revere and study the natural world. His book describes his early failures in his political career and his ascent from the New York City police board to assistant secretary of the Navy where he advocated war with Spain to his brief stint and public renown as a Rough Rider; and on to the governorship of New York vice presidency under McKinley and finally the presidency itself. Elting Morison's new introduction analyzes what Roosevelt has included-and not included-about his many political conflicts his role in the acquisition of the Panama Canal and the deaths of his wife and his mother. As everywhere in his writing the personality of T.R.-alert voluble forceful compassionate-shines forth from this book which remains a singular study of a dynamic and in many respects exemplary man who was also a key figure in the Age of Reform.</p> Grand Central Publishing hardcover‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt's Original Handheld Manuscript Victory Message on Election Night 1898 The Key Moment in His Rise As His Election As Governor Was Assured‎

‎08/11/1898. <blockquote><p>""I shall do all in my power to redeem every promise I have made expressed or implied…I believe I can best serve the Republican Party by doing everything I can to help it serve the state. I shall strive to administer the office of governor in the interests of the whole people. It is by so doing that I can best show my appreciation of the support given me by the independents and Democrats…""</p></blockquote><p>embed size=""full""https://player.vimeo.com/511644882/embed</p><p> </p><p>Wrote Edward F. O'Keefe CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation of this document: ""<span style=""font-weight: 400;"">Though his exploits in Cuba made him a global celebrity Theodore Roosevelt’s election as New York’s governor in 1898 was hardly assured. The Rough Rider reformer Republican won by less than 18000 votes. The campaign was hard-fought. Democrats questioned his citizenship and legal right to run for governor since he paid taxes in Washington D.C. not New York prior to his military service. I write in </span><i><span style=""font-weight: 400;"">The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt</span></i><span style=""font-weight: 400;""> about how TR’s younger sister countered the offensive by secretly giving her brother’s wartime letters to the press to 'further fan the flames of her brother’s celebrity.' This remarkable document reminds us there is a thin line between victory and defeat. Had Theodore lost that very close election in 1898 his political career would have been over before it reignited. TR knew he owed his victory to more than just Republicans: 'I shall strive to administer the office of the governor in the interests of the whole people. It is by so doing that I can best show my appreciation of the support given to me by the independents and Democrats….'""</span></p><hr /><p>At the start of Roosevelt's political career he served three years as a member of the New York State Assembly. His next post was as a member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission of which he later became head. In 1895 he undertook the direction of the New York City Police Department. Then in 1897 he joined President McKinley's administration as assistant secretary of the Navy. None of these offices were stepping stones to a major political career nor were they ones that placed the holder in the spotlight.</p><p>While in the Navy Department he had the foresight to see the Spanish-American War coming and when it broke out in 1898 he found active service in Cuba as lieutenant colonel of a regiment of volunteer cavalry that he himself had raised from an unlikely combination of sons of prominent families in the East and hunters and cowboys in the West. He won great fame as leader of these - the Rough-Riders - the most renowned unit in the Spanish-American War. News of their exploits dominated the newspaper headlines during the conflict and the men and foremost their leader Roosevelt were widely acclaimed upon their return home from Cuba. The Rough Riders were mustered out of the U.S. service in New York on September 15 1898.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-21211 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204174047/1898-1-1600x1912.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1912"" /></p><p> </p><p>At that time New York was the most populous state in the nation and it had the most electoral votes. Business and industry were headquartered there and the most influential press were concentrated there.  Its governor was in a position to exercise power to regularly obtain visibility on a national scale and for an ambitious man to be considered as a serious presidential candidate. TR appreciated all this and back in New York he immediately announced his candidacy for governor. With the gubernatorial election just two months away he planned his campaign with astuteness and cleverness. Tom Platt and the other Republican Party bosses the men who would select the Republican nominee were well aware of TR's popularity and saw his electability. But they also knew that TR was not a machine Republican was known to have in mind the uprooting of Republican ""spoilsmen"" and would be hard to control.  Roosevelt went around them and approached the independent Citizens Union and suggested the nomination of a state ticket that would challenge bosses of both manor parties and the independents liked the idea and planned to proceed. In doing this Roosevelt outmaneuvered Platt and the bosses because the bosses realized that if Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate and divided the Republican vote they would surely lose which would cost them all their patronage and be even worse than having to deal with TR. So Platt met with TR and after TR agreed to consult him on appointments to office and important policy matters he offered Roosevelt the Republican nomination.</p><p>The election was held on November 8 1898 and it was very close. Roosevelt who had campaigned on a promise to run a ""clean"" administration won by just 19000 votes out of some 1.3 million cast. But he won and his career was launched.  The night of November 8 with the returns in TR received word of his victory and sat down to prepare a statement to reporters one that would reach and speak to readers not only in New York but all around the country. As a newspaper reported at the time with full transcript of TR's remarks they were ""…said after all doubt as to his election had been removed.""</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-21213 size-full"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204174038/TRforgif-1.gif"" alt="""" width=""1280"" height=""720"" /></p><p>This is that very statement held by him and made to the press as the most important election of Roosevelt's life was successfully concluded. <strong>Autograph Manuscript</strong> New York November 8 1898 containing his entire election night victory remarks to the press and nation. <em>""I appreciate the honor very deeply and I appreciate even more deeply the responsibility involved in the honor. I shall do all in my power to redeem every promise I have made expressed or implied. I am a good Republican and I believe I can best serve the Republican Party by doing everything I can to help it serve the state. I shall strive to administer the office of governor in the interests of the whole people. It is by so doing that I can best show my appreciation of the support given me by the independents and Democrats who have themselves put the welfare of the state first declining to follow those of their leaders who in this crisis either ranged themselves outright on the side of the forces of dishonesty or else supported them in effect by standing aside from the real contest.""</em> This manuscript has been for very many years in a private collection. We understand that it first reached the market via legendary late 19th / early 20th century autograph dealer Walter Benjamin.</p><p>Of course TR's service as governor of New York led directly to his nomination for vice president of the United States in 1900 just a year and a half later and his assumption of the presidency upon the assassination of President McKinley in September 1901. His election in 1898 was the key moment in his career.</p> unknown‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt Is Shocked That Antiwar Congressman Ernest Lundeen Opposed the Declaration of War With Austria-Hungary‎

‎31/01/1918. <p>When World War I broke out in Europe in 1914 many Americans strongly supported the Allies and the foremost and outspoken among them was ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. TR blamed Germany for the war and its atrocities and openly advocated taking a harsh line against that nation. there was no universal American championship of the Allies cause and in fact many people leaned towards the German side. In fact in 1916 President Wilson ran for reelection on the slogan “He kept us out of war†and won. Then on April 6 1917 Wilson changed his stance and asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. The vote in Congress was 455 in favor to 56 against. One of the Republican to vote no and a leader of the dissenters was the populist and future U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota who followed this vote with a no vote on the conscription bill. In the months after the U.S. declaration of war Lundeen engaged in a heated exchange almost a debate via correspondence with Roosevelt one that dealt with the pros and cons of American policy and Roosevelt’s fierce advocacy of the war and Lundeen’s continued reluctance to support it and as importantly delved into the meanings characteristics and limits of patriotism free speech and dissent in a democracy.</p><p>Wilson may have asked Congress to declare war on Germany in April but he held off asking for such a declaration against Germany’s allies. In December Comgress declared war against Austria-Hungary; this time one socialist voted no and Lundeen paired himself no thus becoming one of just two war opponents in Congress. This infuriated Roosevelt.</p><p><strong>Typed Letter Signed</strong> on his Metropolitan letterhead New York January 31 1918 to Lundeen. <em>“The enclosed letter from Mr. Byron K. Cowles explains itself.  Is it possble that you voted against or paired yourself against the declaration of war against Austria  You clearly assented to my description of our duty for the future; your assert was valueless if you did not mean war with Austria Turkey and Bulgaria.  This was an Administration measure for the efficient prosecution of the war.  The Administration was to be blamed for not asking a declaration of war against Austria long previous to the date in question and it is now to be blamed for not asking a declaration of war against Turkey and Bulgaria.  But its action in declaring war even tardily on Austria was eminently proper and I fail to see how any good American could oppose it.  If you care to say anything to me I shall send your letter to Mr. Cowles if not I shall send him a copy of this one.â€Â </em></p> unknown‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt; Elting E Morison [Introduction]‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography‎

‎Da Capo Press 1985-03-22. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Da Capo Press paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : Q-0306802325 ISBN : 0306802325 9780306802324

‎Theodore Roosevelt, IV‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt's Diaries of Boyhood and Youth‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : B9781258962661 ISBN : 1258962667 9781258962661

‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt's letters to his children Signet classic: CP241‎

‎New American Library 1964-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. NOT ex-library. Clean copy in good condition. New American Library paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : mon0000142559

‎Theodore Roosevelt, IV‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: Through the Brazilian Wilderness‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : B9783863474263 ISBN : 3863474260 9783863474263

‎Theodore Roosevelt, IV‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt an Autobiography‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : B9781162713502 ISBN : 116271350x 9781162713502

‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : B9781015396524 ISBN : 1015396526 9781015396524

‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 935656874X.G ISBN : 935656874X 9789356568747

‎Theodore Roosevelt / Santa Fe Railroad‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt. Document Signed With A Secretarial Signature. U. S. Government / Santa Fe Railroad Land Exchange;‎

‎Washington DC: United Sates Land Office 1904. Document. Very good. Folio Document measuring 10.5†x 16â€; Partly printed document with red embossed seal of the General Land Office at bottom left signed by President Theodore Roosevelt lower right Secretarial Signature Washington D. C. June 3 1904. A Land Grant Of Federal Lands To The Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company. This land a forty acre parcel east of Gila & Salt River Meridian Arizona Territory as part of the Grand Canyon Forest Preserve owned by the SFRR is being exchanged with the United States for a forty acre parcel east of the Mount Diablo Meridian in California. This “swap†was for land east of San Francisco Bay for a parcel near Phoenix Az. Also signed by a F. McKean Secretary & C. H. Brush Recorder of the Land Office. An unusual land grant. There was a controversy in 1902 regarding these exchanges. The Railroad wanted to consolidate its lands and wished to trade uneven numbered parcels for even numbered ones. Their argument was that this would benefit all. Some members of TR’s cabinet were opposed but the argument that grazing lands Arizona could not be parceled out if they were not contiguous won the day and the exchanges were executed. This is a simplification of the event and there were other arguments. This document is a vestige of this series of exchanges. United Sates Land Office unknown‎

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‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches: 2 Library of America‎

‎The Library of America pp. xxxi 915 . Hardback. New. The Library of America hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 6430868 ISBN : 1931082669 9781931082662

‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎THOMAS H. BENTON American Statesmen Volume XXIII‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1899. Standard Library Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Top text block edge gilded. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 180517

‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Thomas Hart Benton‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : A9781498055420 ISBN : 1498055427 9781498055420

‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎THOMAS HART BENTON GOUVERNEUR MORRIS; The Works of Theodore Roosevelt Volume VII‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. National Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Gilded top text block edge. Light toning on spine. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 325490

‎Theodore Roosevelt‎

‎Thomas Hart Benton‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : B9781498055420 ISBN : 1498055427 9781498055420