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Paper Cover. Condizione: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint; (c) 1913 Scribner's. Paper Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Reprint; (c) 1913 Scribner's. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 615 pages; 15 p. index; illustrated mainly from photos; from the rear cover: " His (TR's) autobiography, one of the two or three finest ever written by a U.S. president, abounds in exciting episodes of personal transformation and insights into the bitter politics of the day." From the Foreword: "We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can live comfortably and honestly, and in which a rich men cannot live dishonestly nor in slothful avoidance of duty; and yet we must judge rich man and poor man alike by a standard which rests on conduct and not on caste, and we must frown with the same stern severity on the mean and vicious envy which hates and would plunder a man because he is well off and on the brutal and selfish arrogance which looks down on and exploits the man with whom life has gone hard." Theodore Roosevelt. Sagamore Hill, Oct. 1, 1913. Book condition: Cover corner tips have a slight tendency to curl upward; pages 101-106 upper corners have some fold creases, otherwise book is in VG condition.