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Theodore Roosevelt and the art of American power : an American for all time
\"This study comprehensively and systematically explores how Theodore Roosevelt understood, massed, and wielded power to pursue his vision for an America that was the world's most prosperous, just, and influential nation\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Often dismissed by scholars as an opportunistic politician whose ideas lacked historical import, Theodore Roosevelt has been underestimated as a thinker. But to disdain Roosevelt’s politics is to overlook his important and lasting contributions to the shape of modern America, says the author of this compelling new study of the 26th president of the United States. Joshua Hawley examines Roosevelt’s political thought more deeply than ever before to arrive at a fully revised understanding of his legacy: Roosevelt galvanized a twenty-year period of national reform that permanently altered American politics and Americans’ expectations for government, social progress, and presidents. The book explores the historical context of Theodore Roosevelt’s politics, its intellectual sources, its practice, and its effect on his era and our own. Hawley finds that Roosevelt developed a coherent political science centered on the theme of righteousness, and this “warrior republicanism” was what made the progressive era possible. The debates of Roosevelt’s era were driven largely by his ideas, and from those debates emerged the grammar of our contemporary politics. Casting new light on the fertility and breadth of Roosevelt’s thought, Hawley reveals the full extent of his achievement in twentieth-century intellectual history.
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Great power rising : Theodore Roosevelt and the politics of U.S. foreign policy
\"The nature of the U.S. political system, with its overlapping powers, intense partisanship, and continuous scrutiny from the media and public, complicates the conduct of foreign policy. Indeed, a number of presidents have struggled under the weight of these conditions. Theodore Roosevelt, in contrast, thrived and is widely lauded for his diplomacy. Roosevelt played a crucial role in the nation's rise to world power, competition with other new Great Powers such as Germany and Japan, and U.S. participation in World War I. He was able to implement the majority of his agenda even though he was confronted by a hostile Democratic Party, suspicious conservatives in the Republican Party, and the social and political ferment of the progressive era. What was the secret to TR's success? In Great Power Rising, John M. Thompson argues that Roosevelt combined a compelling vision for national greatness, considerable political skill, faith in the people and the U.S. system, and an emphasis on providing leadership. It helped that the public mood was not isolationist, as some historians have argued, but was willing to support all of TR's major objectives--though Roosevelt's feel for the national mood was crucial, as was his willingness to compromise when necessary. By offering the first analysis of the politics of foreign policy for the entirety of Roosevelt's career, Thompson sheds new light on the twenty-sixth president and provides a rare case study of how one politician navigated the challenges and opportunities presented by the U.S. political system\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rough writing : ethnic authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America
As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who and what an American is took on urgent intensity. It seemed more critical than ever to establish a definition by which Americanness could be established, transmitted, maintained, and judged. Americans of all stripes sought to articulate and enforce their visions of the nation's past, present, and future; central to these attempts was President Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt fully recognized the narrative component of American identity, and he called upon authors of diverse European backgrounds including Israel Zangwill, Jacob Riis, Elizabeth Stern, and Finley Peter Dunne to promote the nation in popular written form. With the swell and shift in immigration, he realized that a more encompassing national literature was needed to express and guide the soul of the nation. Rough Writing examines the surprising place and implications of the immigrant and of ethnic writing in Roosevelt's America and American literature.
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Defining and defending the open door policy
There has been little examination of the China policy of the Theodore Roosevelt administration.Works dealing with the topic fall either into brief discussions in biographies of Roosevelt, general surveys of Sino-American relations, or studies of special topics, such as the Chinese exclusion issue, which encompass a portion of the Roosevelt years.
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William Howard Taft
In this biographical study of the only American ever to have been both President and Chief Justice of the United States, Jonathan Lurie reassesses William Howard Taft's multiple careers, which culminated in Taft's election to the presidency in 1908 as the chosen successor to Theodore Roosevelt. By 1912, however, the relationship between Taft and Roosevelt had ruptured. Lurie re-examines the Taft–Roosevelt friendship and concludes that it rested on flimsy ground. He also places Taft in a progressive context, taking Taft's own self-description as 'a believer in progressive conservatism' as the starting point. At the end of his biography, Lurie concludes that this label is accurate when applied to Taft.
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We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple
The turn of the 20th century represented one of the most
chaotic periods in the nation's history, as immigrants, Native
Americans, and African Americans struggled with their roles as
Americans while white America feared their encroachments on
national identity. This book examines Theodore Roosevelt’s
public rhetoric—speeches, essays, and narrative
histories—as he attempted to craft one people out of many.
Leroy G. Dorsey observes that Roosevelt's solution to the problem
appeared straightforward: everyone could become \"Americans, pure
and simple\" if they embraced his notion of \"Americanism.\"
Roosevelt grounded his idea of Americanism in myth, particularly
the frontier myth—a heroic combination of individual
strength and character. When nonwhites and immigrants
demonstrated these traits, they would become true Americans,
earning an exalted status that they had heretofore been denied.
Dorsey’s analysis illuminates how Roosevelt's rhetoric
achieved a number of delicate, if problematic, balancing acts.
Roosevelt gave his audiences the opportunity to accept a national
identity that allowed \"some\" room for immigrants and nonwhites,
while reinforcing their status as others, thereby reassuring
white Americans of their superior place in the nation.
Roosevelt’s belief in an ordered and unified nation did not
overwhelm his private racist attitudes, Dorsey argues, but
certainly competed with them. Despite his private sentiments, he
recognized that racist beliefs and rhetoric were divisive and bad
for the nation’s progress. The resulting message he chose
to propagate was thus one of a rhetorical, if not literal,
melting pot. By focusing on Roosevelt’s rhetorical
constructions of national identity, as opposed to his personal
exploits or his role as a policy maker,
We Are All Americans offers new insights into
Roosevelt’s use of public discourse to bind the nation
together during one of the most polarized periods in its
history.
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