The Strenuous Life : The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 12 (of 14)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt is a collection of speeches and essays written in the late 19th century. The work encourages embracing a vigorous and challenging lifestyle, emphasizing toil, effort, and the overcoming of difficulties as the essence of true success. Roosevelt argues against the pursuit of mere comfort and ease, promoting the idea that greatness, both personal and national, comes from engagement in strenuous endeavors, including war, civic duty, and work for the common good. At the start of the text, Roosevelt passionately addresses the members of the Hamilton Club in Chicago, invoking the American spirit characterized by hard work, courage, and resilience. He underscores the importance of striving for high ideals rather than succumbing to a life of idleness or cowardice. Through historical references, he illustrates that moments of strife and struggle-such as the Civil War-ultimately lead to national greatness and moral rectitude, asserting that a nation or individual that shies away from challenges diminishes their potential and worth. Roosevelt's call to action is not just for personal betterment, but for a collective national responsibility to face hardships head-on and actively engage in the world stage with purpose and integrity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

The strenuous life

Expansion and peace

Latitude and longitude among reformers

Fellow-feeling as a political factor

Civic helpfulness

Character and success

The eighth and ninth commandments in politics

The best and the good

Promise and performance

The American boy

Military prepareness and unpreparedness

Admiral Dewey

Grant

The two Americas

Manhood and statehood

Brotherhood and the heroic virtues

National duties

The labor question

Christian citizenship.

Credits:

Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Notes:

Reading ease score: 55.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strenuous_Life

Release date is 2019-02-03