Teddy's Tantrum - Durwood, Tom
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A new retelling of the worst moment of one of our very best presidents. In the fall of 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt lost his temper. Someone had shot up the border town of Brownsville, Texas, where the all-black 25th Infantry had recently been stationed. Multiple hearings into the raid incident dragged on, without resolution, so Roosevelt impulsively settled the matter himself. This epic outburst turned into a national drama that would last over four years and ruin over a hundred lives. Half a century later, a writer named John D. Weaver pointed to a photograph in the family album and…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A new retelling of the worst moment of one of our very best presidents. In the fall of 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt lost his temper. Someone had shot up the border town of Brownsville, Texas, where the all-black 25th Infantry had recently been stationed. Multiple hearings into the raid incident dragged on, without resolution, so Roosevelt impulsively settled the matter himself. This epic outburst turned into a national drama that would last over four years and ruin over a hundred lives. Half a century later, a writer named John D. Weaver pointed to a photograph in the family album and wondered where it had been taken. "Some Negro soldiers shot up the town," she explained, "and Teddy Roosevelt kicked them out of the Army." That fleeting remark set him on a quest over two decades long to dig up the truth about what had happened in Brownsville and bring justice to the men of the 25th Infantry. Weaver found a story long buried by the giant reputation of "TR." One hundred and sixty-seven men of the all-black 25th Infantry had indeed been dismissed without a trial after a midnight raid in the border town of Brownsville. What is more, Weaver found that Roosevelt carried out a vendetta against the troops of the 25th Infantry, alongside of whom he had fought in Cuba, hiring private investigators to coerce "confessions" and gather the flimsiest evidence against them. Historian Lewis Gould called it "one of the most glaring miscarriages of justice in American history." With the support of his wife, Harriett, Weaver uncovered all aspects of the entire episode and published a book, causing the U.S. Army to take another look at the whole episode, ultimately issuing an apology to the men of the 25th Infantry and awarded the sole surviving battalion member back pay-almost 70 years later! Teddy's Tantrum is the first chronicle of the entire Brownsville story, treating Weaver's work and the troops' exoneration as an equal part of the narrative. Original scholarship with the support of leading scholars to help interpret the many aspects, roots, and consequences of the tantrum provides an account of John D. Weaver's early career and his two-decade campaign on behalf of the men of the 25th Infantry.
Autorenporträt
Tom Durwood is a teacher, writer and editor with an interest in history. Tom most recently taught English Composition and Empire and Literature at Valley Forge Military College, where he won the Teacher of the Year Award five times. Tom has taught Public Speaking and Basic Communications as guest lecturer for the Naval Special Warfare Development Group at the Dam's Neck Annex of the Naval War College.Tom's ebook Empire and Literature matches global works of film and fiction to specific quadrants of empire, finding surprising parallels. Literature, film, art and architecture are viewed against the rise and fall of empire. In a foreword to Empire and Literature, postcolonial scholar Dipesh Chakrabarty of the University of Chicago calls it "imaginative and innovative." Prof. Chakrabarty writes that "Durwood has given us a thought-provoking introduction to the humanities." His subsequent book "Kid Lit: An Introduction to Literary Criticism" has been well-reviewed. "My favorite nonfiction book of the year," writes The Literary Apothecary (Goodreads).Early reader response to Tom's historical fiction adventures has been promising. "A true pleasure ... the richness of the layers of Tom's novel is compelling," writes Fatima Sharrafedine in her foreword to "The Illustrated Boatman's Daughter." The Midwest Book Review calls that same adventure "uniformly gripping and educational ... pairing action and adventure with social issues." Adds Prairie Review, "A deeply intriguing, ambitious historical fiction series."Tom briefly ran his own children's book imprint, Calico Books (Contemporary Books, Chicago). Tom's newspaper column "Shelter" appeared in the North County Times for seven years. Tom earned a Masters in English Literature in San Diego, where he also served as Executive Director of San Diego Habitat for Humanity.Two of Tom's books, "Kid Lit" and "The Illustrated Boatman's Daughter," were selected "Best of the New" by Julie Sara Porter's Bookworm Book Alert 2021.