Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
Roosevelt, Theodore, Twain, Mark, McFarland, Philip James
War -- Return to America -- Celebrity -- Vice-presidential candidate -- Warfare -- Imperialist America -- Anti-imperialist -- Election results -- The strenuous life -- West -- Rural upbringing -- Urban upbringing -- Clemens goes west -- Grand tours -- Western writings -- Continental America -- The Philippines -- Pan-American Exposition -- Race -- Yale bicentennial -- Racial America -- Back to Hannibal -- Roosevelt and race -- Livy -- Huckleberry Finn -- Roosevelt and the Philippines -- Placating the South -- Oil -- The Kanawha -- Corporate America -- Roosevelt as reformer -- The Gilded Age -- Bankruptcy -- In the White House -- Trustbusting -- Our life is wrecked -- Children -- A seventieth birthday -- Susy -- America at home -- Bully father -- President in his own right -- Global visions -- Bereft and adrift -- Young people -- Peace -- Carnegie -- America at peace -- Late pleasures -- TR steps down -- Jean -- Funerals -- Bull Moose -- Afterward.;Presents a narrative history of the United States from 1890 to 1910, exploring such major themes as nationalism, racism, industrialization, and imperialism as reflected in the actions and writings of the era's two most famous figures.
Կատեգորիաներ:
Տարի:
2014
Հրատարակում:
First paperback edition
Հրատարակչություն:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Լեզու:
english
ISBN 10:
1442212276
ISBN 13:
9781442212275
Ֆայլ:
EPUB, 10.63 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2014