The Rough Riders (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421894645)

During the year preceding the outbreak of the Spanish War I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. While my party was in opposition, I had preached, with all the fervor and zeal I possessed, our duty to intervene in Cuba, and to take this opportunity of driving the Spaniard from the Western World. Now that my party had come to power, I felt it incumbent on me, by word and deed, to do all I could to secure the carrying out of the policy in which I so heartily believed; and from the beginning I had determined that, if a war came, somehow or other, I was going to the front. Meanwhile, there was any amount of work at hand in getting ready the navy, and to this I devoted myself. Naturally, when one is intensely interested in a certain cause, the tendency is to associate particularly with those who take the same view. A large number of my friends felt very differently from the way I felt, and looked upon the possibility of war with sincere horror. But I found plenty of sympa-thizers, especially in the navy, the army, and the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt IV
ISBN-10: 1421894645
ISBN-13: 9781421894645
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 47