The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
Subtitle: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Published: December 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780525476597
Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Young Adult Biography; Children: Grades 4-6; Biography & Autobiography - U.S. Presidents & First Ladies; History - United States/20th Century; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General; History - General; History - United States/General; Biography; Juvenile literature; Presidents; United States
Description: "We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst . . . but we felt the hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living."
-Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt is one of Americaas liveliest and most influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Rooseveltas far-reaching policies abroad and at home forever changed both our nationas place in the world and the life of every modern American.

Fascinating details and an intimate, fast-paced narrative explore the heroic life and complex world of an American icon.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: A boy of old manhatten
pagenum: 12; label: 2
title: The life of effort
pagenum: 34; label: 3
title: a thundering express train
pagenum: 62; label: 4
title: following the drum: from battlefield to white house
pagenum: 89; label: 5
title: at home in the white house
pagenum: 110; label: 6
title: i believe in power
pagenum: 123; label: 7
title: conservation is a great moral issue
pagenum: 149; label: 8
title: the young giant of the west
pagenum: 164; label: 9
title: the most difficult task
pagenum: 188; label: 10
title: the rough riders last flight
pagenum: 210