As Roosevelt took his place in the open carriage leading the procession, an additional surprise lay in store for him: 150 members of his Rough Rider unit, whom he had led so brilliantly in the Spanish...
Establish a clear purpose; challenge the team to work out details; traverse conventional departmental boundaries; set large short-term and long-term targets; create tangible success to generate accele...
If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract, he noted, to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, they assume an obligat...
Roosevelt and Root deputized Taft to inform the Holy See that the United States would purchase the lands for a fair price so long as the hated friars never returned to the archipelago. The land would...
Roosevelt’s revulsion at Tolstoy’s infantile, pathetic, endearing bon vivant—his categorical interpretation of healthy relationships versus unhealthy relationships—reveals a deep-seated disgust with p...
Taft generally ate alone. Forever struggling to lose weight, he limited his midday meal to an apple or a glass of water.
The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform.
The bullet that rests in Roosevelt’s chest has killed Wilson for the Presidency, one Democratic speaker suspected.
The domestic scene, she admitted, referring not only to the coal dispute but to a rash of racial disturbances that had recently broken out, is anything but encouraging and one would like not to think...
The hand Wilson extended when the two men first met felt like a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper—irresponsive and lifeless.
The labor leader Samuel Gompers had long considered the production of cigars in unsanitary tenements one of the most dreadful, cancerous sores on the city of New York. Realizing
The media and pundits of the day instructed women that their only true fulfillment could be found as wives and mothers, that sexist discrimination was actually good for them, that the denial of opport...
The very qualities that had led to Johnson's political and legislative success were precisely those that now operated to destroy him: his inward insistence that the world adapt itself to his goals; hi...
The young man never seemed to know what idleness was, marveled Cutler, and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some English classic or some abstruse book on natural history in his hands.
There are points of likeness in the seminal disasters that befell both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in the early stages of their careers. Both crucibles were precipitated by a combination of...
There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. I persistently refused to lose my temper, he recalled. I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind. Though he steadfas...
Things are certainly kaleidoscopic, Roosevelt telegraphed.
To illustrate the marked atmospheric contrast between the two cities, the writer Frank Carpenter observed that in New York, a streetcar will not wait for you if you are not just at its stopping point....
Undaunted, Will confronted Rose on a street corner and administered what the newspapers termed a terrible beating. He reportedly lifted him up and dashed him to the pavement, executing continuous blow...
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