Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
New York: Sentinel, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, fresh, unread as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing, Hardcover. 350 pp. Illustrated with photographs. After the Civil War, Black Americans were recently freed from slavery. By the late 19th century, however, the passage of Jim Crow laws and with lynchings on the rise, the racial progress that had followed the Emancipation Proclamation and passage of the 14th Amendment was eroding. Just after the century turned, two American heroes rose to meet the crisis, forming an unlikely alliance. Theodore Roosevelt, the American President, a sickly boy from a privileged family who grew to be a military man and politician and Booker T. Washington, son of an enslaved woman, raised without a father or a last name, who became an educator and orator. Best selling historian Kilmeade tells the story of the meeting of their paths with vivid storytelling and gripping pacing. Fine / fine. Item #E33543
ISBN: 9780593543825
Price: $13.95