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Coles American Ideals: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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American Ideals and Other Essays captures Theodore Roosevelt at his most combative and persuasive, turning social and political questions into a bracing defense of active citizenship. Framed by a biographical sketch by General Francis Vinton Greene and dedicated to Henry Cabot Lodge, the collection reflects Roosevelt's conviction that public life demands courage, discipline, honesty, and effective action, not merely noble intentions or easy criticism. Across essays on reform, civil service, city administration, social work, national policy, the Monroe Doctrine, and the vice-presidency, Roosevelt argues that America's future depends on character as much as institutions. He praises leaders such as Washington and Lincoln, linking the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War to the nation's moral inheritance, while warning against corruption, demagoguery, lawlessness, and the worship of profit. Blunt, patriotic, and urgent, these essays present government as a contest that must be met "hard," offering both a call to duty and a blueprint for responsible leadership. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
American Ideals and Other Essays captures Theodore Roosevelt at his most combative and persuasive, turning social and political questions into a bracing defense of active citizenship. Framed by a biographical sketch by General Francis Vinton Greene and dedicated to Henry Cabot Lodge, the collection reflects Roosevelt's conviction that public life demands courage, discipline, honesty, and effective action, not merely noble intentions or easy criticism. Across essays on reform, civil service, city administration, social work, national policy, the Monroe Doctrine, and the vice-presidency, Roosevelt argues that America's future depends on character as much as institutions. He praises leaders such as Washington and Lincoln, linking the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War to the nation's moral inheritance, while warning against corruption, demagoguery, lawlessness, and the worship of profit. Blunt, patriotic, and urgent, these essays present government as a contest that must be met "hard," offering both a call to duty and a blueprint for responsible leadership. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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