Mark Twain and the Colonel Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century / by McFarland, Philip James

Table of Contents: “…War -- Return to America -- Celebrity -- Vice-presidential candidate -- Warfare -- Imperialist America -- Anti-imperialist -- Election results -- The strenuous life -- West -- Rural upbringing -- Urban upbringing -- Clemens goes west -- Grand tours -- Western writings -- Continental America -- The Philippines -- Pan-American Exposition -- Race -- Yale bicentennial -- Racial America -- Back to Hannibal -- Roosevelt and race -- Livy -- Huckleberry Finn -- Roosevelt and the Philippines -- Placating the South -- Oil -- The Kanawha -- Corporate America -- Roosevelt as reformer -- The Gilded Age -- Bankruptcy -- In the White House -- Trustbusting -- Our life is wrecked -- Children -- A seventieth birthday -- Susy -- America at home -- Bully father -- President in his own right -- Global visions -- Bereft and adrift -- Young people -- Peace -- Carnegie -- America at peace -- Late pleasures -- TR steps down -- Jean -- Funerals -- Bull Moose -- Afterward.…”
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Mark Twain and the Colonel Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century / by McFarland, Philip James

Table of Contents: “…War -- Return to America -- Celebrity -- Vice-presidential candidate -- Warfare -- Imperialist America -- Anti-imperialist -- Election results -- The strenuous life -- West -- Rural upbringing -- Urban upbringing -- Clemens goes west -- Grand tours -- Western writings -- Continental America -- The Philippines -- Pan-American Exposition -- Race -- Yale bicentennial -- Racial America -- Back to Hannibal -- Roosevelt and race -- Livy -- Huckleberry Finn -- Roosevelt and the Philippines -- Placating the South -- Oil -- The Kanawha -- Corporate America -- Roosevelt as reformer -- The Gilded Age -- Bankruptcy -- In the White House -- Trustbusting -- Our life is wrecked -- Children -- A seventieth birthday -- Susy -- America at home -- Bully father -- President in his own right -- Global visions -- Bereft and adrift -- Young people -- Peace -- Carnegie -- America at peace -- Late pleasures -- TR steps down -- Jean -- Funerals -- Bull Moose -- Afterward.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view