American Ideals and Other Essays, Social and Political.

ROOSEVELT, Theodore.

Item Number: 115227

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897.

First edition of this collection of Roosevelt’s addresses on American virtues and Americanism, signed by him as President of the United States. The Alleghany edition. Large octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and illustration to the spine, gilt vignette to the front panel, gilt topstain, lettered tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of George Washington. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, “Theodore Roosevelt Sept 1902.” Biographical sketch by Frances V. Greene. In fine condition. Rare and desirable. Uncommon signed.

Roosevelt's American Ideals contains a collection of fifteen addresses analyzing the history and necessity of distinctly American ideals. Selected addresses include: True Americanism, The Many Virtues of Practical Politics, Machine Politics in New York City, The Monroe Doctrine, Washington's Forgotten Maxim, National Life and Character, and The Law of Civilization in Decay.