杭州电子科技大学图书馆书目检索系统

Online Public Access Catalogue

题名/责任者:

The old lion : a novel of Theodore Roosevelt / Jeff Shaara.

版本说明:

First edition.

出版发行项:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023.

ISBN:

9781250279941:

载体形态项:

x, 467 pages : maps ; 25 cm

个人责任者:

Shaara, Jeff, 1952- author.

个人名称主题:

Roosevelt, Theodore,-1858-1919-Fiction.

论题主题:

Biographical fiction.

论题主题:

Novels.

中图法分类号:

I712.45

摘要附注:

"In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, from the waning days of the rugged frontier of a young country to the emergence of a modern, industrial nation exerting its power on the world stage, Theodore Roosevelt embodied both the myth and reality of the country he loved and led. From his upbringing in the rarefied air of New York society of the late 19th century to his time in rough-and-tumble world of the Badlands in the Dakotas, from his rise from political obscurity to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, from national hero as the leader of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War to his accidental rise to the Presidency itself, Roosevelt embodied the complex, often contradictory, image of America itself. In gripping prose, Shaara tells the story of the man who both defined and created the modern United States"--

豆瓣简介：