Theodore Roosevelt - A Manly Presidents Gendered Personal and Political Transformations

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: A Strenuous Life and Transformative Career; Constructs of Manliness: Through a Gender Lens and Analysis; Part I: Theodore Roosevelt; Chapter 1: Acquiring Traits of Manliness: Sorting Out the Challenges of Childhood, Family, and Harvard; Chapter 2: Practicing Manliness: Alternating Performances as Anti-Corruption Assemblyman; Independent Rancher and Hunter; Anti-Corruption Commissioner; Anti-Corruption President of the Police Board; Chapter 3: Manliness Fulfilled: Ultimate Risk, Ultimate Courage, and Near-Ultimate Success; Service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Performance as "Rough Rider"; Chapter 4: Many President and "Square Dealer"; Chapter 5: Manly Imperialist and Nobel Prize Laureate; Chapter 6: Manly Hunter and Conservationist; Chapter 7: Roosevelt the Progressive and His Last Transformation; Conclusion; Part II: Documents; Bibliography

About the author

Neil H. Cogan is Professor at Whitter College, USA, and teaches courses in history, law, and political science. As a practicing lawyer, he specializes in racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination cases, as well as free speech.

Summary

Theodore Roosevelt explores the personal and political life of the 26th President of the U.S.A. It focuses on his ‘manliness’, a gendered framework of traits for the Gilded Age and Progressive Period guiding him and other men in business, politics and war, and shows how they transformed Roosevelt’s personal and political decisions.

Product details

• Authors: Cogan, Neil Cogan, Neil H Cogan, Neil H. Cogan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2020
• EAN: 9780415842822
• ISBN: 978-0-415-84282-2
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Historical Americans; Routledge Historical Americans
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; History, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political leaders & leadership, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership