{"product_id":"9780802778451","title":"Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: A Young Politician's Quest for Recovery in the American West","description":"On February 12, 1884--when Roosevelt was building a career as New \u003cbr\u003eYork State's most promising young politician--his wife gave birth to \u003cbr\u003etheir first child, Alice. Two days later, both his wife and his mother \u003cbr\u003edied in the same house on Valentine's Day. Grief stricken--and driven by\u003cbr\u003e doubts about his career after failed attempts as a reformer fighting \u003cbr\u003epolitical corruption--Roosevelt left Alice in his sister's care and went\u003cbr\u003e to live on a Badlands ranch he had bought a year earlier. He spent much\u003cbr\u003e of the next three years working alongside his ranch managers and hired \u003cbr\u003ehands. He grew to love and respect frontier life and to find in the West\u003cbr\u003e both physical health and emotional stamina.\u003cbr\u003eHis \u003cbr\u003etransformation from a young, Harvard-educated New York politician to a \u003cbr\u003eworking rancher in the mid to late 1880s coincided with the end of the \u003cbr\u003eOld West, a turning point in the cattle industry, and major changes in \u003cbr\u003eAmerica's attitudes toward wildlife and wild places. Drawing on \u003cbr\u003eRoosevelt's own accounts and on diverse archives, Roger Di Silvestro \u003cbr\u003etells the exciting story of how Roosevelt's spirit and political \u003cbr\u003edynamism were forged during roundups, bronco busting, fist fights, \u003cbr\u003egrizzly bear hunts, and encounters with horse thieves, hostile Indians, \u003cbr\u003eand vigilante justice. In the dramatic life of Theodore Roosevelt, few \u003cbr\u003eadventures exceed those that he found in the Badlands.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123363528944,"sku":"9780802778451","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802778451_p0.jpg?v=1763666568","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802778451","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}