The Rough Riders
Subtitle: an autobiography
By: Theodore Roosevelt.
Contributors: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Series: Library of America ;; 153
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 895
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st -- History; Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories; Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives; Presidents -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Personal narratives.; Biography.
Other titles: Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography.
Description: "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas toward the unknown." Writing at a time when war could still be seen as a romantic adventure, Roosevelt describes the confusion of fighting in the jungle; the heat, hunger, rain, mud, and malaria that tested his men; and his "crowded hour" of triumph on the San Juan Heights." "In An Autobiography (1913), Roosevelt recalls his lifelong fascination with natural history, his love of hunting and the outdoors, and his adventures as a cattleman in the Dakota Badlands, as well as his career in politics as a state legislator, civil service reformer, New York City police commissioner, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and president. Roosevelt writes of his battles against corruption and machine rule, efforts to establish America as a world power, historic achievements in conservation, and his growing conviction that only a strong national government and an energetic presidency could protect the public against the rapacious greed of modern corporations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: First work originally published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1899. 2nd work originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1913.
Includes index.