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Gifford Pinchot, of the National Forest Service;
Hon. James R. Garfield, former Commissioner of Commerce.
Also to Lord Bryce and the late Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British
Ambassadors at Washington; to Hon. George W. Wickersham,
Attorney-General under President Taft; to Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt and
Mr. Charles P. Curtis, Jr.; to Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, ex-Senator; to
Mr. James T. Williams, Jr.; to Dr. Alexander Lambert; to Hon. James
M. Beck; to Major George H. Putnam; to Professor Albert Bushnell
Hart; to Hon. Charles S. Bird; to Mrs. George von. L. Meyer and Mrs.
Curtis Guild; to Mr. Hermann Hagedorn; to Mr. James G. King, Jr.; to
Dean William D. Lewis; to Hon. Regis H. Post; to Hon. William
Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State; to Mr. Richard Trimble; to Mr.
John Woodbury; to Gov. Charles E. Hughes; to Mr. Louis A. Coolidge;
to Hon. F. D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; to Judge

Robert Grant; to Mr. James Ford Rhodes; to Hon. W. Cameron Forbes.
I am under especial obligation to Hon. Charles G. Washburn,
ex-Congressman, whose book, "Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of his
Career," I have consulted freely and commend as the best analysis I
have seen of Roosevelt's political character. I wish also to thank the
publishers and authors of books by or about Roosevelt for permission
to use their works. These are Houghton Mifflin Co.; G. P. Putnam's
Sons; The Outlook Co.; The Macmillan Co.
To Mr. Ferris Greenslet, whose fine critical taste I have often drawn
upon; and Mr. George B. Ives, who has prepared the Index; and to Miss
Alice Wyman, my secretary, my obligation is profound.
W. R. T. August 10, 1919
CONTENTS
I. 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 VIII. GOVERNOR OF NEW
YORK--VICE-PRESIDENT IX. PRESIDENT X. THE WORLD
WHICH ROOSEVELT CONFRONTED XI. ROOSEVELT'S
FOREIGN POLICY XII. THE GREAT CRUSADE AT HOME XIII.
THE TWO ROOSEVELTS XIV. THE PRESIDENT AND THE
KAISER XV. ROOSEVELT AND CONGRESS XVI. THE SQUARE
DEAL IN ACTION XVII. ROOSEVELT AT HOME XVIII. HITS
AND MISSES XIX. CHOOSING HIS SUCCESSOR XX. WORLD
HONORS XXI. WHICH WAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? XXII.
THE TWO CONVENTIONS XXIII. THE BRAZILIAN ORDEAL
XXIV. PROMETHEUS BOUND XXV. PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
ABBREVIATIONS
Autobiography = "Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography."
Macmillan Co.; New York, 1914.

*** The titles of other books by Mr. Roosevelt are given without his
name as they occur in the footnotes.
Leupp = Francis E. Leupp: "The Man Roosevelt." D. Appleton & Co.;
New York, 1904.
Lewis = Wm. Draper Lewis: "The Life of Theodore Roosevelt." John C.
Winston Co.; Philadelphia, 1919.
Morgan = James Morgan: "Theodore Roosevelt; The Boy and the
Man." Macmillan Co., new ed., 1919.
Ogg = Frederic A.Ogg: "National Progress, 1907-1917." American
Nation Series. Harper& Bros.; New York, 1918.
Riis = Jacob A. Riis: "Theodore Roosevelt; the Citizen." Outlook Co.;
New York, 1904.
Washburn = Charles G. Washburn: "Theodore Roosevelt; The Logic of
His Career." Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
CHAPTER I.
ORIGINS AND YOUTH
Nothing better illustrates the elasticity of American democratic life
than the fact that within a span of forty years Abraham Lincoln and
Theodore Roosevelt were Presidents of the United States. Two men
more unlike in origin, in training, and in opportunity, could hardly be
found.
Lincoln came from an incompetent Kentuckian father, a pioneer
without the pioneer's spirit of enterprise and push; he lacked schooling;
he had barely the necessaries of life measured even by the standards of
the Border; his companions were rough frontier wastrels, many of

whom had either been, or might easily become, ruffians. The books on
which he fed his young mind were very few, not more than five or six,
but they were the best. And yet in spite of these handicaps, Abraham
Lincoln rose to be the leader and example of the American Nation
during its most perilous crisis, and the ideal Democrat of the nineteenth
century.
Theodore Roosevelt, on the contrary, was born in New York City,
enjoyed every advantage in education and training; his family had been
for many generations respected in the city; his father was cultivated and
had distinction as a citizen, who devoted his wealth and his energies to
serving his fellow men. But, just as incredible adversity could not crush
Abraham Lincoln, so lavish prosperity could not keep down or spoil
Theodore Roosevelt.
In his "Autobiography" he tells us that "about 1644 his ancestor, Claes
Martensen van Roosevelt, came to New Amsterdam as a 'settler'--the
euphemistic name for an immigrant who came over in the steerage of a
sailing ship in the seventeenth century. From that time for the next
seven generations from father to son every one of us