Mark Twain and the Colonel
Subtitle: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
By: Philip McFarland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781442212268; 9781442212282
Subjects: Civilization; Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War; title: Return to America; title: Celebrity; title: Vice-presidential candidate; title: Warfare; title: Imperialist America; title: Anti-imperialist; title: Election results; title: The strenuous life; title: West; title: Rural upbringing; title: Urban upbringing; title: Clemens goes west; title: Grand tours; title: Western writings; title: Continental America; title: The Philippines; title: Pan-American Exposition; title: Race; title: Yale bicentennial; title: Racial America; title: Back to Hannibal; title: Roosevelt and race; title: Livy; title: Huckleberry Finn; title: Roosevelt and the Philippines; title: Placating the South; title: Oil; title: The Kanawha; title: Corporate America; title: Roosevelt as reformer; title: The Gilded Age; title: Bankruptcy; title: In the White House; title: Trustbusting; title: Our life is wrecked; title: Children; title: A seventieth birthday; title: Susy; title: America at home; title: Bully father; title: President in his own right; title: Global visions; title: Bereft and adrift; title: Young people; title: Peace; title: Carnegie; title: America at peace; title: Late pleasures; title: TR steps down; title: Jean; title: Funerals; title: Bull Moose; title: Afterward.