Theodore Roosevelt A Cowboys Ride to the White House

Product Description Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy’s Ride to the White House is the exciting story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the western frontier in 1883. Theodore Roosevelt bought a ranch, learned how to ride, shoot, hunt and acquired the skills that would make him a war hero and American President. It was in the Badlands of Dakota where young Roosevelt became a cowboy and learned about democracy and the American West. Filmed on location at the Roosevelt ranches in the heart of the beautiful and wild Badlands of North Dakota, the growing of age life experiences of the nation’s 26th President, brought to life by nationally acclaimed historians H.W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Clay Jenkinson, and great-grandson Tweed Roosevelt. Henry William Brands is the author of 22 books and a professor at the University of Texas in Austin. Among his work: TR: The Last Romantic. Douglas Brinkley is an award-winning author and a professor of history at Tulane University. He has also served as a director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization and is a commentator for CBS News. Clay S. Jenkinson is an American Humanities and Rhodes Scholar and noted author. A Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt scholar, Jenkinson often does re-enactments of both. He is also the Chief Consultant to The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. Tweed Roosevelt is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He is the Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments of Boston. Roosevelt, like his great-grandfather a Harvard graduate, is a frequent contributor to books, seminars and other historical projects about President Theodore Roosevelt. Review As the title implies, this work charts the evolution of the character of Roosevelt from childhood to presidency, focusing mainly on his life-changing experiences in the Dakotas. This film defines him as a man of contradictions. He was Harvard educated, but chose to leave the East to become a gritty countryman. He had wealth but became a political reformer and trust buster. With an impressive assembly of noteworthy Roosevelt scholars and even Roosevelt s great grandson, this film brings primary sources to life with personal accounts of pivotal events in his life, including his first day in Missouri, and first hunting trip.... This is the strongest quality of this film: while it gives due attention to major events such as the Spanish American War, it gives extensive treatment of lesser known, personal events.... The production quality of this film is top flight. The content was exhaustively researched and brilliantly assembled. The narration is very energetic, like no other documentary. This work offers a unified series of engrossing stories of the man who celebrated the Fourth of July every day. Highly Recommended --Educational Media reviews Online (EMRO) Theodore Roosevelt s visits to the North Dakota Badlands took up only about a year of his life, but the landscape and people of the American West left an indelible impression. As he would later say, I would not have been president if it hadn t been for my experience in North Dakota. Filmmaker Darrell Dorgan s Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy s Ride to the White House which features a pitch-perfect script, lush photography, and a thoughtful score details T.R. s time in the Dakota Territories and follows the threads of his experience through his later life, both as leader of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War and as the youngest man ever to occupy the White House. Insightful commentators include historian Douglas Brinkley and T.R. s great-grandson Tweed Roosevelt. We witness snobbish Harvard dilettante Roosevelt discovering the local saloon (Big-Mouth Bob s Bug Juice Dispensary) as he comes to embrace both the romance and the hardships of frontier life along the Little Missouri River. He rides hard, lives simply, and narrowly escapes a duel that would certainly have been fatal (Roosevelt s poor ey