Bully! Three Autobiographies by Theodore Roosevelt - Hardcover

by Theodore IV Roosevelt (Author)

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most forceful figures in American public life: president, soldier, reformer, historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, and relentless advocate of strenuous action. Bully! Three Autobiographies brings together three of Roosevelt's most important first-person works: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, The Rough Riders, and Through the Brazilian Wilderness. Taken together, they form a sweeping self-portrait of a man who helped shape the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and who turned his own life into a public argument for courage, duty, reform, and national purpose.

In Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Roosevelt recounts his childhood, education, early political career, governorship of New York, vice presidency, presidency, conservation work, reform battles, and the principles that guided his public life. In The Rough Riders, he gives his vivid account of the volunteer cavalry regiment he helped lead during the Spanish-American War, including the campaign in Cuba and the famous charge associated with San Juan Hill. In Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Roosevelt records the dangerous expedition down the River of Doubt, a punishing journey through the Amazon basin that nearly cost him his life.

This three-in-one omnibus presents Roosevelt in his own words: energetic, opinionated, ambitious, moralising, combative, curious, and impossible to ignore. It is both a record of American politics and a chronicle of adventure, war, exploration, leadership, and self-invention. For readers of presidential autobiography, American history, Progressive Era politics, military memoir, exploration narratives, and the life of Theodore Roosevelt, Bully! Three Autobiographies offers a substantial portrait of one of the most dynamic and controversial Americans of his age.