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Title: The Strenuous Life (1900)
ISBN: 1594622574
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
Publicate Date: 2006-07-13
Publish: 2006-07-13
List Price: $25.45
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Strenous Life, Theodore Roosevelt
Quotations of Theodore Rooseveltquotes are historic, we as a country should follow his advice.
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2: Great if you love T.R. already
Alot of great one liners/quotes from this, one of T.R.'s more famous speeches. Exemplifies his thought process and values.
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3: Makes you think
A wonderful addition to my library. Very well bound and attractive inside and out. Margin quotes are a quick reference also.
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4: The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt
This book provides excellent advice on how a
person should live. It indicates the strenuous
life of toil and obstacles. It teaches the reader
not to be idle, but, to be active.
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5: Classic Roosevelt-- for good and bad
This little collection of Roosevelt's speeches and essays gives a wonderful taste for the jingo President's beliefs in a Strenuous Life of hard work, manly virtues and manifest destiny. As a historian, I'm fascinated that this is being marketed as speaking to today's Americans. Roosevelt's comments on the role of white middle-class Protestant women as the breeders of a virile race and his exhortations to embrace 'righteous war' might seem a bit strange as current-day advice, stemming as they do from Teddy's concerns with forcing the Spanish out of Cuba and with 'race suicide,' the belief that white Protestants were being out-bred by Catholic immigrants and African-Americans. For those interested in the Establishment position on those issues in 1900, however, or in Roosevelt himself-- some of these were speeches and the rhythm of them gives you a wonderful idea of what they must have sounded like being delivered-- this is a valuable resource.
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