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Historical person
1858–1919
Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States and an advocate of an energetic federal government. He pursued antitrust action, conservation and naval expansion, mediated the Russo-Japanese War and promoted the Panama Canal.
In John Jakes’s Homeland, historical figures including Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and Buffalo Bill connect the family’s private ambitions to a nation being remade by technology, labour conflict and mass entertainment. In John Jakes’s California Gold, Chance encounters figures such as Leland Stanford, William Randolph Hearst, Ambrose Bierce and Theodore Roosevelt as his pursuit of success repeatedly tests the people he loves and the principles he claims to possess. Other novels featuring Theodore Roosevelt include Gore Vidal’s Empire.
In non-fiction, Theodore Roosevelt is discussed in Michael Punke’s Last Stand. Michael Punke’s Last Stand approaches the subject through political ambition and government, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and military command and battlefield decision-making.
Historical context
Series
Gore Vidal’s seven-volume Narratives of Empire sequence follows the United States from the revolutionary generation to the Cold War, combining the lives of the fictional Schuyler, Sanford and Day families with presidents, senators, journalists and political operators. The novels treat public history as a contest over power, reputation…
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The Crown Family Saga follows a German-American family in Chicago as immigration, industrial wealth and new forms of entertainment transform the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Beginning with young Pauli Kroner’s arrival from Berlin, the novels explore the household of brewery magnate Joe Crown…
All books in this series
Standalone books
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
