Forging a President, 9781621574767
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City boy to cowboy: Roosevelt’s wild west adventure shaped a president.
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Forging a President

how the wild west created teddy roosevelt

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  • Hardcover

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    18 May 2017

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Summary

Forging a President: Theodore Roosevelt in the Wild West

He was born a city boy in Manhattan; but it wasn’t until he lived as a cattle rancher and deputy sheriff in the wild country of the Dakota Territory that Theodore Roosevelt became the man who would be president. “I have always said I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota,” Roosevelt later wrote. It was in the “grim fairyland” of the Bad Lands that Roosevelt became acquainted with the w…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781621574767
ISBN-10:1621574768
Author:William Hazelgrove
Publisher:Regnery Publishing Inc
Imprint:Regnery History
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:18 May 2017
Weight:488g
Dimensions:25mm
About The Author

William Hazelgrove

William Hazelgrove is the author of Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson, a Literary Guild Selection and History Book Club Selection, and ten novels, including The Pitcher (2013), a Junior Library Guild Selection. His books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, Book of the Month Selections, Junior Library Guild Selections, and ALA Editor’s Choice Awards. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer-in-Residence, where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has been the subject of interviews in NPR’s All Things Considered along with features in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Richmond Times-Dispatch, USA Today, People, Channel 11, NBC, WBEZ, and WGN.

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