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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. T N 1909 Roosevelt intrigued my imagination. I find several references to him in the Confessions of a Barbarian. In Chapter III (The State Idea), I said: We have compared ourselves to the Romans. I, myself, have endorsed that comparison. But I am afraid we flatter ourselves. We are undeniably resourceful and mighty. Our dominion is wider than Rome's. We can match the Appian Way. We even have a sort of Caesar. That is what the French call him, and not without justice. Caesar was Rome. America, through Europe's glasses, is Roosevelt. We, recognizing the real master in his dual disguise, bow to Rockefeller and Morgan. On the Continent Rockefeller's memoirs met with scant success. Roosevelt's books went. Like Caesar, Roosevelt is a historian. The future will speak of both as popular leaders. Greek students will perhaps employ the Greek equivalent of the term. Perhaps every statesman must be a demagogue and every prophet a charlatan. Theodore, like the great Julius, is intensely theatrical, and intensely?convulsively?dynamic. Both men believed in their star. Both men, after startling domestic exploits, submerged themselves temporarily in the African jungle. Roosevelt, like Caesar, has hunted big game. But not so big as Caesar's. He has founded no kingdom by the Nile; nor followed the river to its mystical sources. This was written before his expedition to the River of Doubt.] And there was no Cleopatra. That would take more imagination than Mr. Roosevelt possesses. He has slain lions, instead, and penned laborious articles at a dollar a word, for the Outlook and Scribner's. And there was no Cleopatra. The absence of the Cleopatra complex constituted my chief grievance against Roosevelt. I was a poet of passion. A great man without a romance to his credit seemed to...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217042000 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217042007 |
| Weight | 0.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.15 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 62 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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