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He inherited a feeling of entitlement (and obligation) from his family, yet eventually came to see his own class as suspect. He was famously militaristic, yet brokered peace between Russia and Japan. He began an archconservative, yet came to champion progressive causes. These contradictions aren't evidence of vacillating weakness: instead, they were the product of a restless mind bend on a continuing quest for self-improvement.
In Theodore Roosevelt, historian Kathleen Dalton reveals a man with a personal and intellectual depth rarely observed in our public figures. She shows how Roosevelt’s struggle to overcome his frailties as a kid helped to generate his character, and offers new insights into his family life, uncovering quite role that Roosevelt’s second wife, Edith Carow, played in the development of his political career. She also shows how TR flirted with progressive reform and then finally commited himself to deep reform in the Bull Moose campaign of 1912. Incorporating the latest scholarship into a vigorous narrative, Dalton reinterprets both the man and his times to generate an illuminating portrait that changes just how we see this great man and the Progressive Era.
