Theodore Roosevelt, American Ideals, Essays 1907

Standard Library Edition

"American Ideals And Other Essays, Social and Political", by Theodore Roosevelt, with Biographical Sketch by Francis Greene, published by Putnam, New York, 1907, later printing of the first edition, copyright 1897, illustrated, frontispiece with portrait of George Washington.

Contents:

American ideals.
True Americanism.
The manly virtues and practical politics.
The college graduate and public life.
Phases of state legislation.
Machine politics in New York city.
Six years of civil-service reform.
Administering the New York police force.
The vice-presidency and the campaign of 1896.
How not to help our poorer brother.
The Monroe doctrine.
Washington's forgotten maxim.
National life and character.
"Social evolution."
The law of civilization and decay.
Reform through social work.

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Condition Report: Hard boards, original publisher's cloth decorated in gold [some wear and soiling, small damage of the edge of the back-board]; 6.1/4" x 9.1/8"; 359 pages on high quality laid paper, gilt page top, some foxing of the endpapers, stain on the frontispiece, very good condition.