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Roosevelt, Franklin D.

assistant secretary of navy

Roosevelt, Kermit

death of

military service

Roosevelt, Martha (“Mittie”) Bulloch

Roosevelt, Quentin

death of

in World War I

Roosevelt, Theodore

assassination attempt on

assistant secretary of the navy

attempt to raise regiment in World War I

autobiography

books by

change in

changing philosophy of government in relation to business

children (
see also
Roosevelt, Theodore, sons)

correspondence

as cowboy

death of

deciding moment in life of

early life

education

elected president

ex-president

as father

friends/friendships

governorship of New York

health/illness

as hero

historical importance of life of

inherited wealth

marriage to Alice Lee

marriage to Edith Carow

and national forests

in New York State Assembly

Panama Canal

peacemaking role of

personal characteristics

physical exercise

police commissioner of New York City

political career

presidency

presidency: second term

pronouncement regarding not seeking renomination

rank among great presidents

reading

and Rough Riders

sons

sons going to war

and Taft candidacy

and Taft presidency

third-term candidacy

trimphal return to America

vice-presidency

and World War I

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. (“Ted”)

in World War I

in World War II

Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr.

failed to fight in Civil War

Roosevelt family

Root, Elihu

chairman of Republican convention

friendship with TR

and recall issue

secretary of state

secretary of war

senator from New York

on TR

TR on

TR break with

Rough Riders

Russia

persecution of Jews in

war with Japan

Russo-Japanese War peace treaty

Sakhalin Island

San Antonio, Texas

San Juan Hill

Santiago

Santo Domingo

Schiff, Jacob

Schurz, Carl

Scott, Sir Walter

Scribner's Magazine

secession

segregation

self-government

presidency in

separation of powers

“Shadow Lawn,”

Shafter, General

Sheldon, George R.

Sherman Antitrust Act

Sinclair, Upton

slavery

social programs

of TR

of Wilson

social progress

see also
progressives/progressivism

Society of American Foresters

South (U.S.)

Civil War

segregation in

South America

Spain

war with

Spanish-American War

Spring-Rice, Cecil

Square Deal

Taft supported

Standard Oil Company

Standard Oil Company of Indiana

States' rights

Steffens, Lincoln

Sternberg, Hermann von

Stimson, Henry Lewis

Storer, Bellamy

submarines

Sugar Trust

Sunday Excise Law

Supreme Court

Taft and

Taft, Helen

Taft, William Howard

breakup of TR's friendship with

declared war on TR

candidacy for president

presidency

TR's challenge of

Tammany

Tarbell, Ida

tariff

taxes

Tennessee Coal & Iron Company

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Thayer, William Roscoe

Townsend, Lawrence

Trevelyan, George

Tripoli

Truman, Harry

trusts

Wilson and

Twenty-first District Republican Association

Twenty-sixth Infantry Regiment

Union Pacific

unions

United Mine Workers

U.S. Steel

USS
Kearsage

USS
Louisiana

USS
Plunger

Vanderbilt, George W.

Venezuela

Victor Emmanuel, King

Wall Street

Wanamaker, John

War of 1812, TR history of

Washington, Booker T.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, George

image of

welfare state

West (U.S.)

water shortage

Westbrook, T. R.

White, Henry

White, William Allen

White House

Wickersham, George W.

wildlife, TR's interest in

wildlife refugees

William II

Williams, John S.

Wilson, Woodrow

elected president

presidency

TR opposition to

and World War I

Winning of the West
(TR)

“Wisconsin Idea,”

women, TR's views on

Wood, Leonard

Woolworth, Frank

workmen's compensation

World, The
(newspaper)

World War I

America's neutrality in

TR and

TR sought permission to raise regiment in

TR's sons in

World War II

TR's sons in

Yellowstone

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS SERIES

Joyce Appleby on
Thomas Jefferson

Louis Auchincloss on
Theodore Roosevelt

Jean H. Baker on
James Buchanan

H. W. Brands on
Woodrow Wilson

Douglas Brinkley on
Gerald R. Ford

Josiah Bunting III on
Ulysses S. Grant

James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn on
George Washington

Charles W. Calhoun on
Benjamin Harrison

Gail Collins on
William Henry Harrison

Robert Dallek on
Harry S. Truman

John W. Dean on
Warren G. Harding

John Patrick Diggins on
John Adams

E. L. Doctorow on
Abraham Lincoln

Elizabeth Drew on
Richard M. Nixon

Annette Gordon-Reed on
Andrew Johnson

Henry F. Graff on
Grover Cleveland

David Greenberg on
Calvin Coolidge

Gary Hart on
James Monroe

Hendrik Hertzberg on
Jimmy Carter

Roy Jenkins on
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Zachary Karabell on
Chester Alan Arthur

Lewis H. Lapham on
William Howard Taft

William E. Leuchtenburg on
Herbert Hoover

Timothy Naftali on
George Bush

Kevin Phillips on
William McKinley

Robert V. Remini on
John Quincy Adams

Ira Rutkow on
James A. Garfield

John Scigenthaler on
James K. Polk

Hans L. Trefousse on
Rutherford B. Hayes

Tom Wicker on
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ted Widmer on
Martin Van Buren

Sean Wilentz on
Andrew Jackson

Garry Wills on
James Madison

ALSO BY LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

The Rector of Justin

The House of Five Talents

Portrait in Brownstone

Woodrow Wilson
(Penguin Lives)

The Education of Oscar Fairfax

The Anniversary

Her Infinite Variety

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Louis Auchincloss is a highly renowned novelist, literary critic, and historian. The author of more than fifty books, including
The Rector of Justin, The House of Five Talents,
and
The Atonement,
he is the former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City.