Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive MovementThere is a line of Browning's that Should stand as epitaph for Theodore Roosevelt: I was ever a fighter. That was the essence of the man, that the keynote of his career. He met everything in life with a challenge. If it was righteous, he fought for)it, if it was evil, he hurled the full weight of his personality against it. He never capitulated, never sidestepped, never fought foul. He carried the fight to the enemy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.