The perilous adventures of the cowboy king : a novel of Teddy Roosevelt and his times / Jerome Charyn.

""Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible."-- Tom Bissell Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough...

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Main Author: Charyn, Jerome (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919 > Fiction.
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Humorous.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Magical Realism.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Physical Description:xv, 283 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Cowboy king
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Dramatis personae
  • Brave heart, 1862-1878
  • The cyclone assemblyman, 1881-1883
  • Leeholm, 1884
  • Black ice, 1884-1885
  • Her little ladyship, 1885
  • Mayem at Sagamore Hll, 1887-1888
  • Ellie, 1891-1894
  • Policeman's paradise, 1896
  • Policeman's paradise, part two, 1897
  • Policeman's paradise, part three, 1897
  • Sinbad, 1898
  • Kettle Hill, 1898
  • Montauk Point, 1898
  • Josephine, 1899
  • The cowboy candidate, 1900
  • The ghosts of San Juan Hill, 1901
  • The cowboy king, 1901.