Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher:
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Pages : 516
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A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905
Author: Theodore RooseveltA Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
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(Supplemental) a Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905
Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357786229
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Languages : en
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A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905
Author: Theodore RooseveltA Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt
Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333302597
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Excerpt from A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt: 1901-1905 There live honest men who might be described as having their honesty under control. Theirs is a kind of honesty that is neither head long nor inveterate. It is tame, tractable; it will not carry them to expensive extremes. As they say of a well-broken horse, it will stand without hitching. The Roosevelt honesty is the unbroken Opposite of these. In all things it is final. It is militant, wears a sword, and rises stubbornly loyal to each occasion. There be folk pliant to occasion; they are secretive before they are brave, and have a genius for merger. The jackrabbit, when threatened, can so accommodate himself with a condition as to seem to sink into the bare, brown earth; the tree-toad will turn the color of whatever he rests upon. This is for their safety. There be men who can bow instantly to events. Feeling the helm of some sudden new exigency, they will turn at full speed in half their length. Machiavelli speaks highly of this ability to ignobly match the hour one lives in, and preaches from it as from the very text of political success. Still that gift of convenience is the mark of the politician aiming at self-interest, rather than of the statesman who considers the broad advantage of a world. It belongs with one who strives to match his day. Mr. Roose. Velt strives to make his day match him, and his integrities are never supple nor convenient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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White Trash
Author: Nancy IsenbergPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143129678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author “This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “White Trash will change the way we think about our past and present.” —T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Theodore Roosevelt Collection; Dictionary Catalogue and Shelflist
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The Moral Property of Women
Author: Linda GordonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252027642
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books for 2004The only book to cover the entire history of birth control and the intense controversies about reproduction rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years, The Moral Property of Women is a thoroughly updated and revised version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon's classic history Woman's Body, Woman's Right, originally published in 1976.Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women's status, The Moral Property of Women shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality. From its roots in folk medicine and in a campaign so broad it constituted a grassroots social movement at some points in history, to its legitimization through public policy, the widespread acceptance of birth control has involved a major reorientation of sexual values. Gordon puts today's reproduction control controversies--foreign aid for family planning, the abortion debates, teenage pregnancy and childbearing, stem-cell research--into historical perspective and shows how the campaign to legalize abortion is part of a 150-year-old struggle over reproductive rights, a struggle that has followed a circuitous path. Beginning with the "folk medicine" of birth control, Gordon discusses how the backlash against the first women's rights movement of the 1800s prohibited both abortion and contraception about 130 years ago. She traces the campaign for legal reproduction control from the 1870s to the present and argues that attitudes toward birth control have been inseparable from family values, especially standards about sexuality and gender equality. Highlighting both leaders and followers in the struggle, The Moral Property of Women chronicles the contributions of well-known reproduction control pioneers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Emma Goldman, as well as lesser- known campaigners including the utopian socialist Robert Dale Owen, the three doctors Foote--Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Mary Bond Foote--the civil libertarian Mary Ware Dennett, and the daring Jane project of the 1970s, in which Chicago women's liberation activists performed illegal abortions.
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