American Cyclone

When Theodore Roosevelt entered national politics as the Republicans'' nominee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only forty-one years old. However, he had caught the public''s attention with the popular version of his life story. Child of East Coast privilege. Sickly, bespectacled youth. Naturalist and author. Harvard graduate. New York assemblyman. Young widower. Badlands cowboy. Civil Serv...