A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886
Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the History Category

A Most Glorious Ride presents the complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. Covering the formative years of his life, Roosevelt's entries show the transformation of a sickly and solitary Harvard freshman into a confident and increasingly robust young adult. He writes about his grief over the premature death of his father, his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and later the death of Alice and his mother on the same day. The diaries chronicle his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. With his descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera, they offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York. They also recount Roosevelt's first birding and hunting trips to the Adirondacks, the Maine woods, and the American West. Ending with Roosevelt's secret engagement to his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, A Most Glorious Ride provides an intimate look into the life of the man who would become America's twenty-sixth president.

Brought together for the first time in a single volume, the diaries have been meticulously transcribed, annotated, and introduced by Edward P. Kohn. Twenty-four black-and-white photographs are also included.
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A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886
Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the History Category

A Most Glorious Ride presents the complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. Covering the formative years of his life, Roosevelt's entries show the transformation of a sickly and solitary Harvard freshman into a confident and increasingly robust young adult. He writes about his grief over the premature death of his father, his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and later the death of Alice and his mother on the same day. The diaries chronicle his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. With his descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera, they offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York. They also recount Roosevelt's first birding and hunting trips to the Adirondacks, the Maine woods, and the American West. Ending with Roosevelt's secret engagement to his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, A Most Glorious Ride provides an intimate look into the life of the man who would become America's twenty-sixth president.

Brought together for the first time in a single volume, the diaries have been meticulously transcribed, annotated, and introduced by Edward P. Kohn. Twenty-four black-and-white photographs are also included.
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A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886

A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886

A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886

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Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the History Category

A Most Glorious Ride presents the complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. Covering the formative years of his life, Roosevelt's entries show the transformation of a sickly and solitary Harvard freshman into a confident and increasingly robust young adult. He writes about his grief over the premature death of his father, his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and later the death of Alice and his mother on the same day. The diaries chronicle his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. With his descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera, they offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York. They also recount Roosevelt's first birding and hunting trips to the Adirondacks, the Maine woods, and the American West. Ending with Roosevelt's secret engagement to his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, A Most Glorious Ride provides an intimate look into the life of the man who would become America's twenty-sixth president.

Brought together for the first time in a single volume, the diaries have been meticulously transcribed, annotated, and introduced by Edward P. Kohn. Twenty-four black-and-white photographs are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438455150
Publisher: Excelsior Editions
Publication date: 12/09/2014
Series: Excelsior Editions
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 322
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Edward P. Kohn is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Turkey. Kohn has written extensively on Theodore Roosevelt, and his previous books include Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt and Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt.

Table of Contents

Preface: Theodore Roosevelt as Diarist

Introduction: Theodore Roosevelt’s Life until 1877

Harvard: Volume I (1877)
Diary Entries

“Trust in the Lord, and Do Good”: Volume II (1878)
Diary Entries

Chestnut Hill: Volume III (1879)
Diary Entries

Married: Volume IV (1880)
Diary Entries

photo gallery follows pages 176

Politics: Volume V (1881)
Diary Entries

Albany: Volume VI (1882)
Diary Entries

1882 Legislative Diary: Diary of Five Months in the New York Legislature

Albany and “Dakotah”: Volume VII
Diary Entries

“The light has gone out of my life”: Volume VIII (1884)
February 14 Entry (Image)
Diary Entries

“E. K. C.”: Volume IX
Diary Entries

Conclusion: Theodore Roosevelt’s Life after 1886

Glossary of Latin Names of Wildlife Observed and Collected by Theodore Roosevelt

Works Consulted

Index
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