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Harry Lembeck

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Mr. Lembeck writes for the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. An active member of the TRA, he has been its vice president and on its executive committee and board of trustees.
In January 2015, Prometheus Books published Mr. Lembeck’s Taking on Theodore Roosevelt: How One Senator Defied the President on Brownsville and Shook American Politics, a popular historical narrative of the Brownsville Incident in 1906. Black soldiers of the 25th Infantry posted at Fort Brown, Texas were accused of shooting up the town, killing one civilian and seriously wounding another. As commander-in-chief, President Roosevelt, without benefit of court-martial or other trial, discharged every black solider at Fort Brown on the night of the shooting. It is con ...more

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Harry Lembeck I stop writing. But I still think about what it is I'm writing. In a few days the it comes to me, and then I can put it down on paper.…moreI stop writing. But I still think about what it is I'm writing. In a few days the it comes to me, and then I can put it down on paper.(less)

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Harry Lembeck Taking On Theodore Roosevelt shows us a TR not generally known. Part of what made him a great man and great President was his ability to take on a pro…moreTaking On Theodore Roosevelt shows us a TR not generally known. Part of what made him a great man and great President was his ability to take on a problem and deal with it right away, before it festered and became even bigger. Howard University professor Kelly Miller, a Roosevelt contemporary, wrote, “He reaches conclusions and settles issues with a swiftness and self-satisfying certainty that startle the more cautious statesmen who rely upon the slower processes of reason and deliberation. He has diagnosed the case, prescribed the remedy, and cured, or killed, the patient before the ordinary physician has finished feeling the pulse.” In Brownsville, this tendency led to a mistake, a big mistake, and he double-downed by refusing to see the error and pressing on to its unfortunate end. Great men can make great mistakes. This was Theodore Roosevelt's.(less)

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Taking on Theodore Roosevelt: How One Senator Defied the President on Brownsville and Shook American Politics

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The Selling of Taking On Theodore Roosevelt

A blog? For me? What would I say about writing a book that has not been said, gosh, maybe a million of so times before? How hard it is. How writers cleverly find ways to avoid doing it. Pencils must be sharpened, clean sheets of paper arranged just so on the desk. When these and other non really important tasks are complete, then I can start today’s writing. Oh wait, where’s my coffee? Now I must Read more of this blog post »

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