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2) Roosevelt: the lion and the fox (1882-1940) ; and, Roosevelt : the soldier of freedom (1940-1945)
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Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
13) The gangster
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English
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It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand (La Mano Nera) is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special "Black Hand squad," but the gangsters appear to be everywhere -- so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than...
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When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but if...
18) Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
19) In the blood
Publisher
Central Park Media Corp
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This program weaves the retelling of two safaris, separated by 80 years, into an action film. Rare historical footage from the Smithsonian Institute shows President Roosevelt in 1909 hunting African game with his son. Four generations later, Theodore Roosevelt IV and V return to Africa on a safari with Robin Hurt, one of today's finest professional hunters.
20) Rough riders
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A fact-based, rough and tumble western depicting a young and energetic Theodore Roosevelt leading his legendary Rough Riders in their fight against oppressive Spanish rule at the turn of the 20th century.
In 1898 the US government, led by Theodore Roosevelt (Berenger) back when he was still a young, ambitious Naval Secretary, intervenes on the side of the Cuban rebels in their struggle against Spanish rule. Always ready for action, Roosevelt leaves...