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The Rough Riders

by Theodore Roosevelt

Empire Bks. 2011. 136p. ISBN 9781421894645. $23.95; pap. ISBN 9781619492349. $7.99.

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Roosevelt's recounting of his leadership of this unlikely patchwork battalion of Harvard graduates, Native Americans, Badlands ranchers, and others is as American as it gets. Despite being the commanding officer, this future president insisted on fighting at the front of the contingent, creating an account of the Spanish American War by an officer who suffers and takes an enlisted man's risks.

Reviewed by Benjamin Brudner , Jan 01, 2016

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