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We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst . . . but we felt the hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living.
?Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt is one of America?s liveliest and most influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Roosevelt?s far-reaching policies abroad and at home forever changed both our nation?s place in the world and the life of every modern American.
Fascinating details and an intimate, fast-paced narrative explore the heroic life and complex world of an American icon.
Author Notes
Albert Marrin is a much-decorated historian and writer whose most recent book, Terror of the Spanish Main , was called "addictive reading" in The Horn Book . He lives in Riverdale, New York.
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 7 Up-Bully! Marrin does it again, this time with a survey of Roosevelt's robust contribution to our country's political history and to the office of the presidency itself. Born into a rapidly changing industrial America, Roosevelt expanded the influence of the executive branch to tackle labor disputes, corporate monopolies, and environmental conservation. Marrin states that, "-in a sense we still live in the America he helped to shape," referring in part to the 26th president's progressive attitudes toward protecting factory workers and miners from exploitation, his successful crusade for a canal across Central America, and his Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Even these triumphs, however, often pale in contrast to the man's repute as a sportsman, a hunter, and an architect of America's awesome global power. He despised "sissies," traitors, and fools; he shot an elephant in Africa and ate its roasted heart; he sent a fleet of 26 ships around the world to flaunt the muscle of the United States Navy. By his own account, Roosevelt loathed violence and bloodshed; however, he did not shy away from shrewd or honest battles; even years after his presidency, he insisted that America should join the Allied Forces in World War I. Marrin does justice to his subject's complex nature. The large-format text is replete with archival photos of early 20th-century America, political cartoons, and portraits of the Roosevelt family. Students may consult the index to locate specific information for assignments, but any fan of history or sociology will read the biography from cover to cover.-Denise Ryan, Middlesex Middle School, Darien, CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
In The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America, Albert Marrin (Sitting Bull and His World) delivers an engaging account of the life of one the nation's most beloved and outspoken Presidents. Opening with a literal bang-the assassination of President McKinley, which made Roosevelt the nation's youngest President-Marrin covers Roosevelt's youth, pioneering conservation efforts, battles with corporate trusts, famed hunting expeditions and more. Period photographs and editorial cartoons complement the comprehensive text. (Dutton, $30 256p ages 12-up ISBN 9780-525-47659-7; Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
(Middle School, High School) Two distinct themes from the book's title permeate this cradle-to-grave biography. First, Theodore Roosevelt relished being president, and, second, many of the situations he faced, or even created, remain in some form with us today. Marrin addresses TR's strengths, weaknesses, and ambiguities: i.e., the big game hunter who became a staunch conservationist; the well-read man who made hasty and intractable judgments; the individual who felt concern for the public good but remained blind toward racism; and the privileged New Yorker whose Square Deal became the cornerstone of a populist movement. What trumps every character trait, however, is Roosevelt's love of power, which led to his vision: "Get action, do things; be sane, don't fritter away your time; create, act." Operating on the same principles, Marrin carefully and extensively details the social (labor unions, free enterprise, journalistic scams and investigative reporting), political (big money politics, food and drug standards, environmental policies), and international (particularly America's military might) conditions of the time that reverberate in contemporary political life. Archival photographs enhance the text; detailed documentation, adult source material, and an index complete the book. From HORN BOOK, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
An assassin's bullet killed William McKinley and made Theodore Roosevelt the 26th president of the United States, the youngest in American history. It was a new era in America and the world, with the rise of technology and industry and an expanding role for the president in relation to Congress. Roosevelt took charge in regulating big business, passing laws to protect food and drugs, creating national parks and developing America's military might--issues that will seem familiar to today's young readers. Marrin offers another encyclopedic volume on a pivotal American leader and the time period, portraying him as a moral leader with an exuberance to match the spirit of his times. Long stretches of dense text are unrelieved by illustrations, though the many photographs--including some by Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis--and the well-chosen cartoons yield an interesting parallel narrative. Source notes are thorough, though there's nothing to guide young readers to the wealth of other material available for them. A comprehensive resource for young researchers. (index) (Nonfiction. 12+) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Along the lines of his George Washington and the Founding of a Nation (2001), Marrin offers a twin portrait of American society in a time of profound change and the life of a figure so dominant in the politics and self-image of the time that he has become an enduring symbol. A polymath who published some 18 million words and was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize, Roosevelt (no one who knew him well called him Teddy ) was also given to dancing exultantly around the big game he slaughtered, and to blasting (in print) the presidents who succeeded him. Marrin gives him a place in the front rank of our country's heroes, particularly for his achievements in environmental conservation, but also shows him acting badly for example in the shameful Brownsville incident. Numerous endnotes and contemporary photos and prints add to this scholarly profile, which, like Betsy Harvey Kraft's Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit (2003), will give serious history students a solid grounding in the man's times, career, and forceful character.--Peters, John Copyright 2007 Booklist
Table of Contents
| Prologue: Seventeen Coaches All Trimmed in Black | p. 3 |
| 1 A Boy of Old Manhattan | p. 12 |
| 2 The Life of Effort | p. 34 |
| 3 A Thundering Express Train | p. 62 |
| 4 Following the Drum: From Battlefield to White House | p. 89 |
| 5 At Home in the White House | p. 110 |
| 6 I Believe in Power | p. 123 |
| 7 Conservation is a Great Moral Issue | p. 149 |
| 8 The Young Giant of the West | p. 164 |
| 9 The Most Difficult Task | p. 188 |
| 10 The Rough Rider's Last Fight | p. 210 |
| Notes | p. 232 |
| Further Reading | p. 239 |
| Index | p. 241 |
