Individual Author Record
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General InformationName: George Wallace ChessmanPen Name: None Genre: History Non-Fiction Audience: Adult; Born: 1919 in Ottawa, Illinois-- George Wallace Chessman on WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=george+wallace++chessman |
Illinois Connection
Dr. Chessman graduated in 1936 from high school in Peoria, Illinois.Biographical and Professional Information
In 1937 he graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover. He received his A.B. (Cum Laude) from Harvard University in 1941 and his Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard in 1951. He taught at Denison University in 1950-51 and from 1953 until retiring in 1983. Dr. Chessman held Fulbright Lectureships at the University of Southampton, England (1958-59) and at the University of Rome, Italy (1978-79). He also taught at Ohio State University and the University of South Carolina. During Word War II he served in the United States Coast Guard.As a scholar of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era, Dr. Chessman contributed many works of scholarship on that subject.Published Works 
Titles At Your Library
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Governor Theodore Roosevelt: The Albany apprentiship, 1898-1900 ISBN: B0000CMU72 Oxford U.P. 1965 |
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Power ISBN: 0881337951 Waveland Pr Inc. 1994 Poised at a strategic point in the emergence of modern America, Theodore Roosevelt entered the White House just as the twentieth century opened. Following a succession of weak presidents who proved themselves incapable of dealing seriously with the novel problems and responsibilities created by industrialization within the country and by imperialism in the world outside its boundaries, Roosevelt was uniquely qualified by training and personality to reverse the trend. His patrician background, his education, and his grasp of the national and international situations set him apart from the men he succeeded in Washington. His vigorous, colorful, forceful personality attracted widespread public attention and deep affection. As a result, he was able to face problems that his predecessors had avoided. In matters like labor and conservation, Roosevelt established fruitful precedents for the country. In others, diplomacy for instance, he made false starts. But in any case, he illuminated the questions with which his successors would have to deal. Legend, or near legend, Roosevelt dominated an era in American life. An examination of his multiple careers throws light on the problems of transition of the U.S. from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. |
