[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Theodore Roosevelt REALIZABLE IDEALS, 1912

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Theodore. REALIZABLE IDEALS (The Earl Lectures). San 
Francisco: Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co., 1912. First Edition. Green 
gilt-lettered cloth; [vi], 154 pages. SIGNED "Theodore Roosevelt" on the 
front endpaper. Likely signed during the "Bull Moose" Party Presidential 
Campaign of 1912. In 1908 Roosevelt dictated by fiat the nomination of 
his successor, W. H. Taft, then Vice-President. Though he was an 
effective reformer in his own right, Taft alienated the progressive 
Republicans headed by Robert LaFollette and Roosevelt. In 1912 the 
Republican party was fractured over the presidential nomination. The 
Taft faction, however, controlled the convention of 1912, and Taft was 
nominated for re-election. Roosevelt led his followers out of the 
convention and organized the Progressive Party (also called the Bull 
Moose Party), and Roosevelt was nominated for President on this 
third-party slate. In the election he ran second to the Democratic 
candidate, Woodrow Wilson. Forced into retirement, Roosevelt denounced 
the policies of Wilson, and after the outbreak of World War I he 
attacked Wilson's neutrality policy. When the United States entered the 
war, he vainly pleaded to be allowed to raise and command a volunteer 
force. He died soon after the end of the war. REALIZABLE IDEALS, drawn 
from a series of lectures delivered at Pacific Theological Seminary, 
Berkeley, California in 1911, is a very personal and highly moral appeal 
to the responsibilities of educated and well-positioned college men as 
leaders of society. It is so powerfully phrased and well spoken that one 
almost hears the vigorous voice and bully heart that orated to these men 
of the West so many decades ago. A scarce book to find signed. Paper 
split to front hinge, covers tight; browning to endpapers. Spine faded a 
bit with tears along edges. Still Very Good. (#020668)     $3,500

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