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Taking on Theodore Roosevelt : how one senator defied the president on Brownsville and shook American politics /
In August 1906, black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, Texas, were accused of going on a lawless rampage in which shots were fired, one man was killed, and another wounded. Because the perpetrators could never be positively identified, President Theodore Roosevelt took the highly unusual step of d...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The iron of the wound enters the soul itself
- "They ate shooting us up"
- A special request
- On the ground
- A more aggressive attitude
- The education of the Rough Riders and the wizard
- Roosevelt does justice
- Friends of the administration
- These are my jewels
- Two sets of affidavits
- Between two stools
- Grim-visaged war
- Strange fruit
- A different burden of proof
- Cordial cooperation
- Most implicit faith
- What did happen at that Gridiron dinner
- First-class color men
- Greatest Shepherd
- The soldiers' patron and patronage
- Other coalitions, other fronts
- A face to grace the White House
- Brownsville ghouls
- "Do you care to say anything on the subject?"
- An act of treason
- Roosevelt fatigue
- "Not one particle of regret".