CONTENTS
I. ORIGINS AND YOUTH	I
II. BREAKING INTO POLITICS	25
III.	AT THE FIRST CROSSROADS	46
IV.	NATURE THE HEALER	56
V. BACK TO THE EAST AND LITERATURE	69
VI. APPLYING MORALS TO POLITICS	83
VII. THE ROUGH RIDER	109
VIII. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK —VICE-PRESIDENT     131
IX. PRESIDENT	154
X. THE WORLD WHICH ROOSEVELT CONFRONTED   158
XI. ROOSEVELT'S FOREIGN POLICY	169
XII. THE GREAT CRUSADE AT HOME	191
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	318
XXI. WHICH WAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?	332
XXII. THE TWO CONVENTIONS	356
XXIII.	THE BRAZILIAN ORDEAL	389
XXIV.	PROMETHEUS BOUND	402
XXV. PROMETHEUS UNBOUND	426
INDEX	457

ILLUSTRATIONS
THEODORE ROOSEVELT	Photogravure Frontispiece
Photograph by Pine Macdonald
ROOSEVELT IN 1880, AS A SENIOR AT HARVARD COLLEGE   20
ROOSEVELT THE HUNTER, 1905	80
ROOSEVELT AS A ROUGH RIDER	124
WITH GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER AND LEONARD WOOD
1898	128
IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1904	152
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN THE WHITE HOUSE	192
WITH THE RUSSO-JAPANESE PEACE DELEGATES ON
BOARD THE PRESIDENTIAL YACHT MAYFLOWER,
AUGUST 5, 1905	226
SAGAMORE HILL	256
THE LAST CABINET MEETING AT WHICH ROOSEVELT
PRESIDED	304
ROOSEVELT AT SAGAMORE HILL	318
FACSIMILE OF A LETTER OF ROOSEVELT'S WRITTEN AT
THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1916	424
A FAMILY GROUP	448

ABBREVIATIONS
Autobiography = " Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography."  Mac-miilan 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." Hough ton Mifflin Co., 1916.