Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [0]
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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Copyright © 2010 by Edmund Morris
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Morris, Edmund.
Colonel Roosevelt / Edmund Morris.
p. cm.
Continues: Theodore Rex.
eISBN: 978-0-679-60415-0
1. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858–1919. 2. Presidents—United States—Biography. 3. United States—Politics and government—1909–1913. 4. United States—Politics and government—1913–1921.
I. Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. II. Title.
E757.M8825 2010 973.911092—dc22 2010005890
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Frontispiece photograph: Theodore Roosevelt by George Moffett, 1914
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To
Robert Loomis
IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN ALL AGES, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those, whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality been only more conspicuous than those of others, not more frequent, or more severe.
—Samuel Johnson, THE LIVES OF THE POETS (1781)
CONTENTS
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Author’s Note
PROLOGUE The Roosevelt Africa Expedition, 1909–1910
PART ONE 1910–1913
CHAPTER 1 Loss of Imperial Will
CHAPTER 2 The Most Famous Man in the World
CHAPTER 3 Honorabilem Theodorum
CHAPTER 4 A Native Oyster
CHAPTER 5 The New Nationalism
CHAPTER 6 Not a Word, Gentlemen
CHAPTER 7 Showing the White Feather
CHAPTER 8 Hat in the Ring
CHAPTER 9 The Tall Timber of Darkening Events
CHAPTER 10 Armageddon
CHAPTER 11 Onward, Christian Soldiers
CHAPTER 12 There Was No Other Place on His Body
CHAPTER 13 A Possible Autobiography
CHAPTER 14 A Vanished Elder World
INTERLUDE Germany, October–December, 1913
PART TWO 1914–1919
CHAPTER 15 Expediçào Cíentífica Roosevelt-Rondon
CHAPTER 16 Alph, the Sacred River
CHAPTER 17 A Wrong Turn Off Appel Quay
CHAPTER 18 The Great Accident
CHAPTER 19 A Hurricane of Steel
CHAPTER 20 Two Melancholy Men
CHAPTER 21 Barnes v. Roosevelt
CHAPTER 22 Waging Peace
CHAPTER 23 The Man Against the Sky
CHAPTER 24 Shadows of Lofty Words
CHAPTER 25 Dust in a Windy Street
CHAPTER 26 The House on the Hill
CHAPTER 27 The Dead Are Whirling with the Dead
CHAPTER 28 Sixty
EPILOGUE In Memoriam T.R.
Acknowledgments
Archives
Select Bibliography
Notes
Illustration Credits
About the Author
AUTHOR’S NOTE
For compatibility with quotations, and stylistic empathy with the period 1909–1919, most place-names and usages remain unmodernized in this book. Hence, British East Africa for what is now Kenya, Christiania for Oslo, Near East for the Middle East, Mesopotamia for Iraq. Turkey is synonymous with the Ottoman Empire, and England with the United Kingdom.
Racial, personal, and sexual attitudes of the time have not been moderated. Hence, in the African prologue, such words as savage, boy, and native (the last regarded as respectful now, but tending toward disparagement then). And in the chapters proper, crippled, Miss or Mrs. Married or unmarried, women were hardly ever referred to by surname only. The word race, when quoted, usually connotes a national rather than ethnic identity. Although some “hyphenated” minorities achieved recognition during World War I, the phrase African-American did not