Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography
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Book Description
I N finishing the correction of the last proofs of this sketch, I perceive that some of those who read it may suppose that I planned to write a deliberate eulogy of Theodore Roosevelt. This is not true. I knew him for forty years, but I never followed his politic'al leadership. Our political differences, however, never lessened our personal friendship. Sometimes long intervals elapsed between our ...
MoreI N finishing the correction of the last proofs of this sketch, I perceive that some of those who read it may suppose that I planned to write a deliberate eulogy of Theodore Roosevelt. This is not true. I knew him for forty years, but I never followed his politic'al leadership. Our political differences, however, never lessened our personal friendship. Sometimes long intervals elapsed between our meetings, but when we met it was always ,vith the same intimacy, and when ve wrote it was with the same candor. I count it fortunate for me that during the last ten years of his life, I was thrown more with Roosevelt than during all the earlier period; and so I was a bie to observe him, to know his motives, and to study his character during the chief crises of his later career, when what he thought and did became an integral part of the development of the United States. After the outbreak of the World War, in 1914, he and I thought alike, and if I mistake not, this closing
Table of Contents
1 ORIGINS AND YOUTH; II BREAKING INTO POLITICS; III AT THE FIRST CROSSROADS; IV NATURE THE HEALER; V BACK TO THE EAST AND LITERATURE; ; VI APPLYING MORALS TO POLITICS; VII THE ROUGH RIDER 109; VIII GOVERKOR OF NEW YORK - VICE-PRESIDENT ]31; IX PRESIDENT 154; X THE WORLD WHICH ROOSEVELT CONFRONTED 158; XI ROOSEVELT'S FOREIGN POLICY 16Q; XII THE GREAT CRUSADE AT HOME J9I; XIII THE TWO ROOSEVELTS 201; XIV THE PRESIDENT AND THE KAISER 214; XV ROOSEVELT AND CONGRESS 231; XVI THE SQUARE DEAL IN ACTION 242; XVII ROOSEVELT AT HOME 255; XVIII HITS AND MISSES 281; XIX CHOOSING HIS SUCCESSOR 303; XX WORLD HONORS JI8; XXI VHICH VAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? 332; XXII THE TWO CONVENTIONS 356; XXIII THE BRAZILIAN ORDEAL 389; XXIV PROMETHEUS BOUND 402; XXV PROMETHEUS UNBOUND 426; rnD~ ~7
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