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From: The Style's the Man: Reflections on Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and Others[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Auchincloss speculates on Roosevelt's elusive inner character.] A long the walls of the main hall of the classroom building of Groton School were hung, in chronological order,...
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From: The American West: An Appraisal[In the following essay, Lewis explains his reasons for considering The Winning of the West a failure both as literature and as history.] The incongruity of Harvard-educated Theodore Roosevelt in the Bad Lands of North...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date spring 2003) In the following essay, Eaton notes the importance of McCarthy's novels to the genre of the anti-Western because of their critique of Manifest Destiny, but Eaton maintains that McCarthy's...
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From: Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Whitley suggests that Hemingway's depiction of Africa and Africans in The Green Hills of Africa was informed by the travel writing of the adventurer Theodore Roosevelt, who...
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From: Jack London Newsletter[In the following essay, Gershenowitz defends the authority of Jack London as a naturalist with respect to Roosevelt's criticism of him as a “Nature-Faker.”] The controversy between President Theodore Roosevelt and...
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From: Style[In the following essay, originally published in History as Literature in 1913, Roosevelt argues that historical writing should retain a distinct literary aspect as exemplified by the works of the great historians of the...
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From: Raritan: A Quarterly Review[In the following essay, Aaron charts the declining image and reputation of Roosevelt as a public figure.] Four gigantic presidential heads, the work of the American-born sculptor Gutzon Borglum, look out from the...
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From: Prejudices: Second Series[Mencken was one of the most influential figures in American literature from the First World War until the early years of the Great Depression. His strongly individualistic, irreverent outlook on life and his vigorous,...
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From: Paideuma[(essay date spring-fall 1990) In the following essay, Tuma attempts to trace the roots of Pound's later political course by analyzing Pound's 1912 essay Patria Mia, a cultural critique of Pound's belief that a...
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From: Philosophy and Rhetoric[In the following essay, Zyskind studies Roosevelt as an example of a public figure who embodied conflicting views and qualities whose source of may be found in the nature of philosophic rhetoric.] I. INTRODUCTION...
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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review[In the following essay, Cooper traces Roosevelt's development as a historian.] The most casual visitor to Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, cannot fail to grasp two of the owner's greatest...
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From: Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman[In the following essay, Beers praises Roosevelt for his ability to translate his experiences as a man of action into a body of literary works.] In a club corner, just after Roosevelt's death, the question was asked...
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From: Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870-1900[In the following essay, Klein discusses the figure of the cowboy as portrayed in various works by Roosevelt.] Imperialism was a principle. In his Foreword to the 1900 edition of his The Winning of the West, Theodore...
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From: Medieval and Historiographical Essays in Honor of James Westfall Thompson[In the following essay, Miller offers a critical view of Roosevelt's historical works.] The career of historian was the first to which young Roosevelt, newly graduated from Harvard, turned his attention. He had...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[Kimball reviews Public Philosopher: Selected Letters of Walter Lippman, edited by John Morton Blum.] Why should anyone bother to read over 600 pages of letters written by the same person, even so prominent a pundit as...
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From: Partisan Review[Schlesinger is a prominent American historian and an influential figure in liberal politics. As a special assistant to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he was instrumental in formulating the “New Frontier”...
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From: Policy Review[(essay date February/March 2007) In the essay below, Miller examines Larry McMurtry's fiction, analyzing his use of Western myth.] Before his critical success with Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry floundered on the...
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From: Bulletin of The New York Public Library[In the following essay, Tuttleton investigates the significance of a reference to Theodore Roosevelt in Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence as well as the author's lifelong acquaintanceship with Roosevelt.] The...
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From: Book Buyer[In the following essay, Johnston considers the varied subject matter of Roosevelt's writings.] As a man of action rather than a man of letters, Colonel Roosevelt has in our American year of 1898 appeared in the public...
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From: The Learned Presidency[In the following essay, Burton examines the influences that formed Roosevelt's prose style.] On 7 June 1910, in the Sheldonian Theatre of the University of Oxford, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt delivered the Romanes...