Author: Frank Buffington Vrooman

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Published: 2015-07-08

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781330943663

Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt Dynamic Geographer No intelligent geographer or economist will be satisfied with mere catalogues or classifications of facts, that so many trees have been planted, so many dams have been built, so many canals have been digged, or that so many cornfields have allowed so much bacon to be added to the world's common store of good. It is imperative that we connect a continental re-arrangement with the fundamental principles underlying the progress made. In other words, the economic geography of the United States cannot be intelligently studied apart from the political geography of the United States. In reviewing the Roosevelt administration one is startled by the array of practical results actually achieved for the common good, and no less by the impetus and universality of the movement among the people toward the idea of a new democracy. There is a chance that American destiny may be fulfilled on rational instead of fortuitous lines. Mr. Roosevelt's work has been laid on geographical foundations, carried on in an ethical spirit and conservatively within constitutional limits. The future historian will date a new era in American history from him. American politics can never again be the arid waste it was before it was watered by Mr. Roosevelt's irrigation ditches. Facing problems no less than continental, he made a political issue of a national economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.