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I.The Nursery and Its Deities[1]
II.Green Fields and Foreign Faring[34]
III.The Dresden Literary American Club[69]
IV.College Chums and New-Found Leadership[94]
V.The Young Reformer[116]
VI.The Elkhorn Ranch and Near-Roughing It in Yellowstone Park[135]
VII.Two Recreant New York Policemen[155]
VIII.Cowboy and Clubman[164]
IX.The Rough Rider Storms the Capitol at Albany[181]
X.How the Path Led to the White House[194]
XI.Home Life in the White House[206]
XII.Home Life in the White House (Continued)[236]
XIII.Wall Street Hopes Every Lion Will Do Its Duty[254]
XIV.The Great Denial[264]
XV.Whisperings of War[276]
XVI.“Do It Now”[303]
XVII.War[323]
XVIII.“The Quiet Quitting”[359]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Theodore Roosevelt with his little granddaughter, Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918[Frontispiece]
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Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., aged thirty, 1862[8]
Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, twenty-two years old, about 1856[8]
Theodore Roosevelt, about eighteen months old, 1860[18]
Theodore Roosevelt, about four years old, 1862[18]
Elliott Roosevelt, aged five and a half years, about 1865[32]
Corinne Roosevelt, about four years old, 1865[32]
Theodore Roosevelt, aged seven, 1865[32]
Corinne Roosevelt, 1869, at seven and a half years[46]
Theodore Roosevelt at ten years of age[46]
Anna Roosevelt at the age of fifteen when she spoke of herself as one of the “three older ones”[46]
The Dresden Literary American Club—Motto, “W. A. N. A.” (“We Are No Asses”)[72]
Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, September 21, 1875[92]
Theodore Roosevelt, December, 1876, aged eighteen[92]
Portrait taken in Chicago, July, 1880, on the way to the hunting trip of that season[114]
We had that lovely dinner on the portico at the back of the White House looking toward the Washington Monument[230]
A review of New York’s drafted men before going into training in September, 1917[332]

MY BROTHER
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

THE STAR
Epiphany, 1919

Great soul, to all brave souls akin,
High bearer of the torch of truth,
Have you not gone to marshal in
Those eager hosts of youth?