The golden lad : the haunting story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
(Large Print)
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Published
Waterville, Maine : ThorndikePress, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
ISBN
9781410490056, 141049005X
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Glenwood-Lynwood Public Library District - Stacks | 921 ROOSEVELT | On Shelf |
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor | LARGE TYPE 973.911 BURNS | On Shelf |
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LC Subjects
Biographies.
Children of presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- United States -- Biography.
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
Presidents -- Family relationships -- United States.
Roosevelt, Quentin, -- 1897-1918.
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919 -- Family.
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919.
United States. -- Army. -- Air Service. -- Aero Squadron, 95th.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties.
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
Children of presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- United States -- Biography.
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
Presidents -- Family relationships -- United States.
Roosevelt, Quentin, -- 1897-1918.
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919 -- Family.
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919.
United States. -- Army. -- Air Service. -- Aero Squadron, 95th.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties.
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
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Published
Waterville, Maine : ThorndikePress, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
379 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781410490056, 141049005X
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352).
Description
More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate. Never has a more exuberant man been our nation's leader. He became a war hero, reformed the NYPD, busted the largest railroad and oil trusts, passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, created national parks and forests, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and built the Panama Canal -- to name just a few. Yet it was the cause he championed the hardest -- America's entry in to WWI -- that would ultimately divide and destroy him. His youngest son, Quentin, his favorite, would die in an air fight. How does looking at Theodore's relationship with his son, and understanding him as a father, tell us something new about this larger-than-life-man? Does it reveal a more human side? A more hypocritical side? Or simply, if tragically, a nature so surprisingly sensitive, despite the bluster, that he would die of a broken heart? Roosevelt's own history of boyhood illnesses made him so aware of was like to be a child in pain, that he could not bear the thought of his own children suffering. The Roosevelts were a family of pillow-fights, pranks, and "scary bear." And it was the baby, Quentin -- the frailest -- who worried his father the most. Yet in the end, it was he who would display, in his brief life, the most intellect and courage of all.
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LARGE PRINT
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Burns, E. (2016). The golden lad: the haunting story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt (Large print edition.). ThorndikePress, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Burns, Eric. 2016. The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt. ThorndikePress, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Burns, Eric. The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt ThorndikePress, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Burns, Eric. The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt Large print edition., ThorndikePress, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
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