Mark Twain and the Colonel : Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
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Mark Twain and the Colonel : Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
Rowman & Littlefield , Distributed by National Book Network, 2014, c2012
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"First paperback edition"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Mark Twain and the Colonel tells the story of America between 1890 and 1910 through the fully engaged involvement of the era's two most vital participants: Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt. At this pivotal moment in our history, the previously frontier-driven expansion of America was being replaced by an America that had begun to legitimately think of itself as a world power, and a dominant presence and leader on the international stage. No longer merely a successful experiment in democracy and republicanism, America saw tensions arise between those focused on which areas of American life necessitated radical progress, and which required devout preservation. Tensions like these manifested nowhere more tellingly than between our greatest humorist and our youngest President, whose warring visions of what America could and ought to be were radically different, but nevertheless laid the bedrock for modern America - its arguments, achievements, and aspirations - as we came to see it through the twentieth century, and to the present day.
Table of Contents
Part I: War
Chapter 1: Return to America
Chapter 2: Celebrity
Chapter 3: Vice-Presidential Candidate
Chapter 4: Warfare
Chapter 5: Imperialist America
Chapter 6: Anti-Imperialist
Chapter 7: Election Results
Chapter 8: The Strenuous Life
Part II: West
Chapter 9: Rural Upbringing
Chapter 10: Urban Upbringing
Chapter 11: Clemens Goes West
Chapter 12: Grand Tours
Chapter 13: Western Writings
Chapter 14: Continental America
Chapter 15: The Philippines
Chapter 16: Pan-American Exposition
Part III: Race
Chapter 17: Yale Bicentennial
Chapter 18: Racial America
Chapter 19: Back to Hannibal
Chapter 20: Roosevelt and Race
Chapter 21: Livy
Chapter 22: Huckleberry Finn
Chapter 23: Roosevelt and the Philippines
Chapter 24: Placating the South
Part IV: Oil
Chapter 25: The Kanawha
Chapter 26: Corporate America
Chapter 27: Roosevelt as Reformer
Chapter 28: The Gilded Age
Chapter 29: Bankruptcy
Chapter 30: In the White House
Chapter 31: Trustbusting
Chapter 32: Our Life Is Wrecked
Part V: Children
Chapter 33: A Seventieth Birthday
Chapter 34: Susy
Chapter 35: America at Home
Chapter 36: Bully Father
Chapter 37: President in His Own Right
Chapter 38: Global Visions
Chapter 39: Bereft and Adrift
Chapter 40: Young People
Part VI: Peace
Chapter 41: Carnegie
Chapter 42: America at Peace
Chapter 43: Late Pleasures
Chapter 44: TR Steps Down
Chapter 45: Jean
Chapter 46: Funerals
Chapter 47: Bull Moose
Chapter 48: Afterward
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