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Title: Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement; Volume 47 in The
Chronicles Of America Series

Author: Harold Howland

Editor: Allen Johnson

Posting Date: January 8, 2009 [EBook #2724]
Release Date: July, 2001

Language: English

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS TIMES,

A CHRONICLE OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT

By Harold Howland

CONTENTS

I. THE YOUNG FIGHTER
II. IN THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY
III. THE CHAMPION OF CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
IV. HAROUN AL ROOSEVELT
V. FIGHTING AND BREAKFASTING WITH PLATT
VI. ROOSEVELT BECOMES PRESIDENT
VII. THE SQUARE DEAL FOR BUSINESS
VIII. THE SQUARE DEAL FOR LABOR
IX. RECLAMATION AND CONSERVATION
X. BEING WISE IN TIME
XI. RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND REVOLUTIONS
XII. THE TAFT ADMINISTRATION
XIII. THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY
XIV. THE GLORIOUS FAILURE
XV. THE FIGHTING EDGE
XVI. THE LAST FOUR YEARS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS TIMES

CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG FIGHTER

There is a line of Browning's that should stand as epitaph for Theodore
Roosevelt: "I WAS EVER A FIGHTER." That was the essence of the man, that
the keynote of his career. He met everything in life with a challenge.
If it was righteous, he fought for it; if it was evil, he hurled the
full weight of his finality against it. He never capitulated, never
sidestepped, never fought foul. He carried the fight to the enemy.

His first fight was for health and bodily vigor. It began, at the age
of nine. Physically he was a weakling, his thin and ill-developed body
racked with asthma. But it was only the physical power that was wanting,
never the intellectual or the spiritual. He owed to his father, the
first Theodore, the wise counsel that launched him on his determined
contest against ill health. On the