[Rarebooks] F/S Theodore Roosevelt Daily Offering

[Garry R Austin]

2/14/14

Each day we offer a Theodore Roosevelt related item. 

On Valentine's Day in 1884, just 36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Alice, 25-year-old future U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt held his young wife in his arms as she passed away from undiagnosed Bright's Disease. Incredibly, just hours before, in the same house, he had already said a final goodbye to his mother, Martha. She had succumbed to Typhoid, aged just 48. In his Journal for that day a single entry, "The light has gone out of my life".
 It crushed him emotionally. Following this event he gave up his seat in the  NY Assembly and removed to the Dakotas to escape the East and the haunting memories. He hunted and fell in love with the Badlands and embarked on a career as a rancher. Fortunately, for the United States, he was able to deal with his incredible sorrow, rekindle his boyhood romance with Edith Carow, who became his second wife and resume a career in public service. With today's offering we remember TR's great loss but focus on a later and triumphant time.


We offer the following postpaid and net to all;

A CAMPAIGN PUBLICATION

Thompson, Robert J. (Compiler & Editor). "A Square Deal For Every Man", A Collation Of Questions From The Addresses And Messages Of Theodore Roosevelt - Being a Self-Delineation Of His Character And Ideals. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1904. 					                   $75.00
Only edition; 24mo, pp. 93; original burgundy cloth lettered in black; Very good; A real Treasure! OCLC Locates just nine copies; A vest pocket sized book that could be utilized in a political argument to illuminate a TR position on any question from Anarchy & Lynching to Motherhood or the Tariff!



Garry R Austin
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