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The Namesake, the Biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Paperback)
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The Namesake, the Biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Paperback)
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Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most
decorated soldier in American history, having earned his
Congressional Medal of Honor and every other medal offered by the
United States to the foot soldier for combat heroism. As a young
man, he wanted to have a career in the military, but his father,
President Theodore Roosevelt, discouraged this. Ted went to
Harvard, and dreamed of one day following his father into the White
House. Things did not go well for him politically; he had only two
one-year terms in the New York State Assembly and a failed run for
the New York Governorship. Other positions held in his working life
included: carpet salesman, bond salesman, investment banker,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, big game hunter, Governor General
of Puerto Rico, Governor General of the Phillipine Islands, and
editor and VP at Doubleday Publishing Co. Yet the army was where
his niche obviously lay: he served as Battalion Commander in WWI;
after the Armistice, he and four other non-career officers founded
The American Legion, as it exists today. After seeing combat in
North Africa, Sicily and Italy (under Eisenhower) during WWII, he
assisted in the preparation for D-Day. On Utah Beach in Normandy,
under enemy fire for hours, Roosevelt served as assistant Division
Commander of the 4th Infantry Division. His death, some weeks after
D-Day, came just before he was to be promoted to Major General, an
unheard-of-honor for any reserve officer. Robert Wells Walker was
born and raised in the small city of Florence, Alabama. After
attending the local public schools, a BS degree from the University
of Alabama and a two-year stint as a lieutenant in the Army
preceded his admission to Law School at Emory University. After
earning an LLB degree and passing both the Alabama and Georgia bar
exams, he returned to Florence, where he practiced law and raised
cattle for the next 36 years. Now retired from law, he still has
cattle and cherishes his time spent with his children and grandson.
Other pleasures include playing duplicate bridge and fishing in the
beautiful Tennessee River. For this biography of Theodore Roosevelt
Jr., Walker did extensive research in New York State and Texas,
uncovering personal documents and photographs which are available
to the public for the first time in THE NAMESAKE.
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