Theodore Roosevelt and His Times; A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921. Abraham Lincoln Edition. Presumed first printing thus. This also appears to be a First Edition/Presumed First printing as the copyright date is 1921. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5 inches by 8.125 inches. xi, [1], 289, [3] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations (complete). Bibliographical Note. Index. Top edge gilt. Some pages uncut. Spine has some fading. Some front edge spotting. Some endpaper discoloration. Decorative front cover. Some rear cover wear and soiling. This is Volume 47 in The Chronicles of America Series edited by Allen Johnson, a 50-volume series on American history. They were written by historians about various aspects of American history. Theodore Roosevelt's prior experience as police commissioner of New York City and governor of New York state, made him the first president to have an intimate knowledge of modern urban problems. By 1906 he was the undisputed spokesman of national progressivism and its best publicity agent. Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) was a writer, naturalist, soldier and 26th President of the United States (1901-1909). His military exploits and his love of nature are well known. Topics in this work cover his time in the New York Assembly, Civil Service Reform, Square Deal business, Conservation, Taft Administration, Progressive Party, and his final years. This work opens with: "There is a line of Browning's that should stand as epitaph for Theodore Roosevelt: "I WAS EVER A FIGHTER." That was the essence of the man, that the keynote of his career. He met everything in life with a challenge. If it was righteous, he fought for it; if it was evil, he hurled the full weight of his finality against it. He never capitulated, never sidestepped, never fought foul. He carried the fight to the enemy." More