American History Book Review: We Are All Americans

We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism by Leroy G. Dorsey, University of Alabama Press, 280 pp., $32.50 Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to invite an African American—Booker T. Washington—to dine at the White House. Yet he also expressed doubts about whether blacks were capable “of assuming …

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