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Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Theodore Roosevelt also held the offices or ranks of President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, Governor of New York, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Theodore Roosevelt belonged to the Roosevelt family. Theodore Roosevelt was born in Manhattan and died in Sagamore Hill.

Kim A. Wagner’s Massacre in the Clouds then traces the controversy that followed in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt praised the action, while critics including Mark Twain and W. E. B. Du Bois challenged the language of victory used to describe it. Wagner shows how the massacre was gradually pushed to the margins of public memory and places it within the wider history of American colonial rule, counterinsurgency and the transfer of imperial practices from European empires to the United States. John Jakes’ California Gold follows California from the late nineteenth century into the Progressive Era, including railroad domination, the growth of Los Angeles, the San Francisco earthquake and the beginnings of the film industry. 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. Theodore Roosevelt is treated fictionally in Gore Vidal’s Empire, John Jakes’ Homeland, Frederick Forsyth’s Phantom of Manhattan, Jane Kirkpatrick’s The Healing of Natalie Curtis, and Jeff Shaara’s The Old Lion.

Periods

Periods linked to Theodore Roosevelt

Gilded Age Americac. 1870–1900 CE

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Theodore Roosevelt (4 series)

House of Winslow in Order

by Gilbert Morris 40 books 4.4(8,071)

The House of Winslow is a forty-volume family saga tracing descendants of an English religious dissenter from the Mayflower era to the Second World War. Across three centuries, the Winslows take part in colonial settlement, revolution, western expansion, industrial growth, overseas missions, modern entertainment and global war. Each…

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The Crown Family Saga in Order

by John Jakes 2 books 4.3(12,154)

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…

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American Century in Order

by Gilbert Morris 7 books 4.3(1,763)

The American Century follows the Stuart family from the ambitions of Progressive-Era America through two world wars, depression, Korea and the upheavals of the 1960s. Successive generations leave the Arkansas hills for cities, battlefields, Hollywood and public life, carrying family loyalties into a rapidly changing nation. The series…

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Narratives of Empire in Order

by Gore Vidal 5 books 4.3(236)

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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Standalone books

Standalone books featuring Theodore Roosevelt (4 books)

Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring Theodore Roosevelt (3 books)

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