By Benjamin Franklin; William Temple Franklin
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TR’s ambivalent friend and fellow historian Henry Adams added his own oft-quoted diagnosis “that Theodore is insane.... ” Scientists, taking their cue from historians, have even listed him as a notable manic-depressive. 18 To assess Theodore Roosevelt’s life and its meaning in the context of the fullness of American history—looking at cultural and social issues as well as political ones—requires us to question the debunkers as carefully as the writers who would canonize him. Neither the cartoon figure nor the standard heroic TR is real.
He shaped the plots and chose the virtues he would embody. As a young man well read in James Fenimore Cooper’s and Francis Parkman’s romanticization of the western pioneer, as well as the dime novel’s simpler portrayal of western cowboys, TR styled himself as a new Leatherstocking, the lone hero who stood for innate morality in the midst of nature. 7 He outfitted himself in buckskin cowboy garb and made sure he was photographed in it. Left unquenched by his western adventures, he looked elsewhere for testing grounds: his appetite for derring-do was insatiable.
He also saw the unequal division of wealth in his own time as unfair and dangerous to true democracy. His ideas and concerns, even when they were wrong-headed, stand as challenges for our times. His strenuous life was passionate, entertaining, and constructive. May readers find some of what he lived inside this book. BOOK ONE WHEREIN A YOUNG DUKE MAKES HIMSELF A TRUE MAN CHAPTER ONE The Handicap of Riches AMERICAN PRESIDENTS are not supposed to start out in life the way Theodore Roosevelt did. His was not a rags-to-riches story begun in a log cabin.