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GOETHALS- GENIUS OF THE PANAMA CANAL- A BIOGRAPHY by JOSEPH BUCKLIN BISHOP. Originally published in 1930. Contents include: Preface xi i. The Colonel 1 n. The Boy and the Book 12 in. West Point Has a Happy New Year 38 iv. Early Engineering Work 53 v. Assistant to the Chief of Engineers and Service in the Porto Rican Campaign 72 vi. West Point, Coast Fortifications, and the General Staff 83 vn. Panama from Goethe to Goethals 95 vin. Shadows Before 129 ix. ' Til Get Along with the Men 143 x. Both Feet on the Ground 157 xi. The Chief Engineer 194 XIL The Benevolent Despot 227 xm. The End of the...

Most of the letters in this book were written by Theodore Roosevelt to his children during a period of more than twenty years. A few others are included which he wrote to friends or relatives about the children. He began to write to them in their early childhood, and continued to do so regularly till they reached maturity. Whenever he was separated from them, in the Spanish War, or on a hunting trip, or because they were at school, he sent them these messages of constant thought and love, for they were never for a moment out of his mind and heart. Long before they were able to read he sent...