In his new book, “The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century” (Scribner, 2019), Clay Risen, deputy op-ed editor for The New York Times, illuminates ...
America’s 26th president forged himself by pitching headlong into conflict, according to this perceptive biography. Historian Brown (A Hell of a Storm) recaps Roosevelt’s combative life starting with ...
Introduction: New York City, 1899 -- 1. "The puerility of his simplifications" -- 2. "One does not make war with bonbons" -- 3. "A burst of thunder" -- 4. "The days of '61 have indeed come again" -- 5 ...