Böcker av James Blase

This book follows the pattern of the author's other five volumes in constructing a first person diary of the President's 1902 tour of the New England states in the late summer of 1902, similar to ex-President Roosevelt's accounts of his trips to Africa and South America. Similar to the other three volumes in the series, no attempt has been made by the author in this edition to paraphrase or interpret the sources used in creating this account of President Roosevelt's 1902 New England tour, as the author's approach is to provide the reader with contemporaneous facts, speeches and other relevant information, and then allow the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusions regarding the merits of the journey. The title to this volume, along with the cover photo of the President, was intentionally selected to represent the the President's admiration for his chief Secret Service agent, William Craig, who died a tragic death on September 3, 1902, the last day of this trip, and exactly 120 years previous to the publication of this volume. The President is photographed during his stop in Rutland, Vermont, just two days prior to the fatal accident described at the end of this volume. President Roosevelt appears to be mourning, as he looks down upon the American flag draped before him, a flag which, in the author's mind, represents the fallen William Craig. President Theodore Roosevelt no doubt would have described this, the first of his several train tours eventually intended to cover the entire United States, as a "bittersweet journey."

This is an author-created "first-person" daily journal of Theodore Roosvelt's 66-day western train trip in 1903. A companion piece to High Ideals: Theodore Roosevelt's 1911 Western Trip, and REUNION: Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 Southern Trips, this book Includes photos from every train stop along the way. 8 in x 10 in. As one reviewer remarked: "I absolutely LOVED reading this book. I have read many books regarding Teddy Roosevelt and other Presidents, but this book presented a view of President Roosevelt from a completely different perspective. The book not only allows readers to feel like they are traveling with TR on his trip, but also gives insights into his personality, priorities and perspective of what makes the United States such a great country."Released to commemorate the 100th anniversary of President Theodore Roosevelt's passing on January 6, 1919, this book chronicles a nine-week, coast-to-coast, "western trip" which the President made during the middle of the first term of his Presidency, from April 1 through the first week of June, 1903. The book endeavors to create an "unauthorized" day-by-day, hour-by-hour journal of the 1903 western trip for the President. It documents both the pre-planning and every day during the President's train tour of the western United States, based on the President's own writings, the writings of those who traveled and camped with the President, the more than 250 speeches the President made over the course of the nine-week trip (the preparation for which no doubt accounted for the President's inability to also keep his own daily journal of the trip), and, most importantly, the local newspaper accounts from virtually every city or small town where the President's train stopped."Keep it for your children and your children's children." Most everyone is familiar with these now famous remarks Theodore Roosevelt made at the Grand Canyon during the middle of his 1903 western trip, and how the President eventually applied this same sentiment towards our nation's other National Parks, Monuments and Forests. As you travel along with President Roosevelt over the duration of his cross-country train journey, you will gradually discover that the President preached a very similar "keep it for your children and your children's children" message when it came to the duty of every American to help keep, preserve and protect the nation itself. 8 in. X 10 in.

This book follows an identical pattern as the author's two previous self-created daily journals of Theodore Roosevelt's western travels, Keep it for Your Children: Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 Western Trip, and High Ideals: Theodore Roosevelt's 1911 Western Trip. In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt made two extended train trips, which journeys together covered virtually the entire Southern United States Region as defined by the United States Census Bureau, and also included a three-week hunting trip in Colorado. Although the President's stated purposes for these two trips were to attend a reunion of his Rough Rider regiment in San Antonio, Texas, as well as a reunion of his mother's family in Roswell, Georgia, upon studying the many whistle stop and formal speeches the President made along the routes of these trips, one cannot help to wonder whether the periods covered, which coincided with the 40-year anniversary of the end of the Civil War, were intended to be more than coincidental.The Oxford dictionary includes the following two definitions for the noun "reunion" 1. the process or an instance of reuniting; and 2. a social gathering of people who have not seen each other for some time. There is no question that a purpose of the President's 1905 southern trips was to attend the reunions of his Rough Rider regiment in San Antonio and of his mother's family in Roswell, but perhaps more significantly the President sought by these trips to convey a "message of reuniting" to the country upon the 40-year anniversary of the end of the Civil War, from his first major speech inLouisville, Kentucky (a state which originally announced its intention to be neutral throughout the Civil War), through his final speech in New Orleans.The President wanted the entire country to be reunited, not just the men who fought for the blue and the men who fought for the gray, but for its citizens at large, regardless of heritage, station in life or family, geographical or political background. And he wanted it desperately for Washington, also.

This book follows an identical pattern as the author's other books in his "Theodore Roosvelt's Travels Across America" Amazon Series. This last book in the five-volume series describes in detail the President's tour down the Mississippi River in the fall of 1907, including all of the President's speeches and photographs from each of his stops along the way.