“A splendid piece of work.” — Edmund Morris In a unique project,
author Daniel Ruddy has carefully extracted Teddy Roosevelt’s
most relevant and telling comments—from letters, books,
speeches, and other sources—and organized them to form a fairly
full, always colorful, and highly opinionated history of the
United States up to 1919 (the year TR died). With a preface by
Theodore Rex author Edmund Morris. Theodore Roosevelt's ideas
about the nation's early days and his own times can be found
sprinkled throughout his voluminous writings, but these "pearls
of thought" (as one of his book reviewers described them in
1888) have never before been pulled together into one volume.
Now, through the skillful editing of Daniel Ruddy, Theodore
Roosevelt's History of the United States provides readers with
Roosevelt's unique view of American history from the Revolution
to the beginning of the twentieth century. An astute historical
observer, Roosevelt was a hanging judge who did not hesitate to
render harsh verdicts about l