Download Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation AudioBook Free
In 1901, Leader Theodore Roosevelt asked Booker T. Washington to own meal at the professional mansion with the First Family. Another morning, media that the leader got dined with a black man - and ex - slave - sent surprise waves through the nation. Although African Us citizens got helped build the White House and got worked for almost all of the presidents, not a single one got ever been asked to dine there. Fueled by inflammatory newspaper articles, political cartoons, and even vulgar music, the scandal escalated and threatened to topple two of America's ideal men. Within this smart, accessible narrative, one relatively ordinary meal becomes a window onto post-Civil Conflict American background and politics, and onto the lives of two dynamic men whose experiences and philosophies hook up in unforeseen ways. Deborah Davis also introduces dozens of other fascinating numbers who have recently occupied the margins and footnotes of background, creating a lively and vastly engaging e book that reconfirms her place as you of the most talented popular historians.
