Colonial Policies of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Colonial Policies of the United States I may perhaps mitigate my presumption in publishing a foreword to this book by saying that I had some small part in encouraging Colonel Roosevelt to write it. He needed some urging. For while diflidence is not generally supposed to be the badge of those who bear the Roosevelt name, the Colonel seemed far more terrified by the idea of writing a book about his experience as a colonial governor than he had been by all the wild animals that he has chased across Asia and Africa. Last spring he was still modestly over come with doubts and hesitations. For though he had written the book and had used the material success fully in a series of lectures before a British audience, he still felt the need of a literary chaperon before he could commit himself to the publication of a book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.