Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New CenturyRowman & Littlefield, 16.01.2014 - 520 Seiten Mark Twain and the Colonel tells the story of America between 1890 and 1910 through the fully engaged involvement of the era's two most vital participants: Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt. At this pivotal moment in our history, the previously frontier-driven expansion of America was being replaced by an America that had begun to legitimately think of itself as a world power, and a dominant presence and leader on the international stage. No longer merely a successful experiment in democracy and republicanism, America saw tensions arise between those focused on which areas of American life necessitated radical progress, and which required devout preservation. Tensions like these manifested nowhere more tellingly than between our greatest humorist and our youngest President, whose warring visions of what America could and ought to be were radically different, but nevertheless laid the bedrock for modern America - its arguments, achievements, and aspirations - as we came to see it through the twentieth century, and to the present day. |
Inhalt
CHAPTER One Return to America | 3 |
CHAPTER Two Celebrity | 11 |
CHAPTER Three Vice Presidential Candidate | 19 |
CHAPTER Four Warfare | 28 |
CHAPTER Five Imperialist America | 39 |
CHAPTER Six AntiImperialist | 47 |
CHAPTER Seven Election Results | 55 |
CHAPTER Eight The Strenuous Life | 63 |
CHAPTER TwentySeven Roosevelt as Reformer | 234 |
CHAPTER TwentyEight The Gilded Age | 243 |
CHAPTER TwentyNine Bankruptcy | 252 |
CHAPTER Thirty In the White House | 261 |
CHAPTER ThirtyOne Trustbusting | 269 |
CHAPTER ThirtyTwo Our Life Is Wrecked | 278 |
PART Five CHILDREN | 287 |
CHAPTER ThirtyThree A Seventieth Birthday | 289 |
PART Two WEST | 73 |
CHAPTER Nine Rural Upbringing | 75 |
CHAPTER Ten Urban Upbringing | 83 |
CHAPTER Eleven Clemens Goes West | 90 |
CHAPTER Twelve Grand Tours | 99 |
CHAPTER Thirteen Western Writings | 108 |
CHAPTER Fourteen Continental America | 119 |
CHAPTER Fifteen The Philippines | 128 |
CHAPTER Sixteen PanAmerican Exposition | 136 |
PART Three RACE | 145 |
CHAPTER Seventeen Yale Bicentennial | 147 |
CHAPTER Eighteen Racial America | 155 |
CHAPTER Nineteen Back to Hannibal | 164 |
CHAPTER Twenty Roosevelt and Race | 172 |
CHAPTER TwentyOne Livy | 180 |
CHAPTER TwentyTwo Huckleberry Finn | 189 |
CHAPTER TwentyThree Roosevelt and the Philippines | 197 |
CHAPTER TwentyFour Placating the South | 205 |
PART Four OIL | 215 |
CHAPTER TwentyFive The Kanawha | 217 |
CHAPTER TwentySix Corporate America | 226 |
CHAPTER ThirtyFour Susy | 299 |
CHAPTER ThirtyFive America at Home | 308 |
CHAPTER ThirtySix Bully Father | 316 |
CHAPTER ThirtySeven President in His Own Right | 324 |
CHAPTER ThirtyEight Global Visions | 332 |
CHAPTER ThirtyNine Bereft and Adrift | 340 |
CHAPTER Forty Young People | 348 |
PART Six PEACE | 357 |
CHAPTER FortyOne Carnegie | 359 |
CHAPTER FortyTwo America at Peace | 368 |
CHAPTER FortyThree Late Pleasures | 376 |
CHAPTER FortyFour TR Steps Down | 384 |
CHAPTER FortyFive Jean | 393 |
CHAPTER FortySix Funerals | 403 |
CHAPTER FortySeven Bull Moose | 411 |
CHAPTER FortyEight Afterward | 420 |
Chronology | 429 |
Notes | 439 |
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About the Author | 499 |
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