Roosevelt the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895

English

ISBN: 0817357246

EAN: 9780817357245

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State/Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration/History / United States / 19Th Century/

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Release Date: 06/30/2012

Synopsis: Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelts life, his first six years in Washington. Roosevelt the Reformersheds light on an important chapter in the biography of the flamboyant 26th president of the United States. From 1889 to 1895-before he was a Rough Rider in the SpanishAmerican War and before he oversaw the building of the Panama Canal and won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize-Teddy Roosevelt served as one of three civil service commissioners. This was a significant period of his life because he matured politically and learned how to navigate through Washington politics. He sparred with powerful cabinet officers and congressmen and survived their attempts to destroy him. He cultivated important friendships and allegiances, flourished intellectually, and strengthened his progressive views of social justice, racial theory, and foreign relations. It was a period altogether significant to the honing of administrative talent and intellectual acuity of the future president. Richard White Jr. situates young Roosevelt within the exciting events of the Gilded Age, the Victorian era, and the gay nineties. He describes Roosevelts relationships with family, friends, colleagues, and adversaries. Many of these people, such as Henry Cabot Lodge, Cecil Spring-Rice, Alfred Mahan, Henry Adams, and John Hay would significantly influence Roosevelt when he later occupied the White House. White explores TRs accomplishments in civil service reform, the effect of the commission experience on his presidency a decade later, and his administrative legacy. In addition to Harvard Universitys immense collection of Roosevelt correspondence, White drew from original sources such as the Civil Service Commission files in the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the National Park Service Roosevelt Historical Site at Sagamore Hill, and the records of the National Civil Service Reform League.

Roosevelt the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 0.04 oz

Pages: 280