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This is a positive and controversial book--one that restores much of the luster to Theodore Roosevelt's reputation as a man, as President, and as a reformer and Progressive. Interpreting TR's career from the point of view of what was politically possible rather than theoretically desirable, the author shows how Roosevelt--as a young assemblyman n the New York Legislature, as an uncorruptible commissioner of the civil service and later of the police, and finally as governor and President--repeatedly forced the leaders of the Republican Old Guard to compromise their opposition to his social and economic views. He tells how TR, following his return from Africa in 1910, fretted for a year and a half over the ineffectiveness of his chosen successor before submitting to his overwhelming urge to be President again. And he reveals how TR, having lost his bid for he Republican nomination in 1912, found himself in an insoluble ideological and political dilemma. In three final chapters based on hereto unused sources, the author relates the dramatic story of TR's last great cause--the campaign to force Woodrow Wilson to take the United States into World War I and to prosecute the war with vigo

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Author

William Henry Harbaugh

Publisher

New York: Octagon Books

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374936600

Category

biography

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Updated

2026-03-25