{"product_id":"the-rough-riders-9781421894645","title":"The Rough Riders","description":"During the year preceding the outbreak of the Spanish War I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. While my party was in opposition, I had preached, with all the fervor and zeal I possessed, our duty to intervene in Cuba, and to take this opportunity of driving the Spaniard from the Western World. Now that my party had come to power, I felt it incumbent on me, by word and deed, to do all I could to secure the carrying out of the policy in which I so heartily believed; and from the beginning I had determined that, if a war came, somehow or other, I was going to the front. Meanwhile, there was any amount of work at hand in getting ready the navy, and to this I devoted myself. Naturally, when one is intensely interested in a certain cause, the tendency is to associate particularly with those who take the same view. A large number of my friends felt very differently from the way I felt, and looked upon the possibility of war with sincere horror. But I found plenty of sympa-thizers, especially in the navy, the army, and the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"1st World Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334836883730,"sku":"9781421894645","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6ebc6d03-ed20-429b-9409-23cb3d991fc5.jpg?v=1727896005","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rough-riders-9781421894645","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}