A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, covering the years from his birth in 1858 to 1901 when, with the death of President McKinley, he became the youngest president of the United States.
Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House dinner that shocked a nation
Davis, Deborah
Explores the responses to and effects on the nation of President Theodore Roosevelt's White House dinner with Booker T. Washington, a former slave. Examines the society of post-slavery America and the reputations of Roosevelt and Washington.
When Lily goes to Coney Island in 1909 to visit her newborn sister, she learns about the art and traditions of the Jewish woodcarvers who make the carousel animals there.
Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.
