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...Roosevelt wrote columns and delivered speeches sharply chastising Taft, accusing him of violating “every canon of ordinary decency and fair dealing.” O’Toole’s narrative of the ruined friendship paints Roosevelt as the pigheaded party who refused Taft’s peace gestures. Taft is the far more sympathetic figure. For instance, while on the stump, Taft broke into tears, lamenting that “Roosevelt was my closest friend...
...conservatives wanted nothing to do with Roosevelt’s progressive policies. After a dispute over the allocation of delegates, the 1912 GOP national convention nominated Taft, prompting Roosevelt to form his own Bull Moose Party and run anyway. “Roosevelt had loved the presidency for the power it gave him to play the hero, and when it ended, he was as wounded and blind as a husband who loses an adored wife to another man,” O’Toole writes. The two candidates split the Republican ballots, and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, won with...
...years later, Roosevelt struck out for South America, which promised the “adulation and contest” that he sorely lacked in the U.S. where Wilson ignored him. Always eager for an adventure, Roosevelt and an entourage that included his son Kermit—Class of 1912—sailed down a Brazilian waterway. The Roosevelts’ crew members dropped like flies: one drowned when Kermit’s canoe was swept over a waterfall. And the crew’s sergeant was murdered by an angry boatman...
...himself nearly became a casualty on the expedition. Four weeks into the journey, he injured his left leg and lapsed into a high-fevered delirium. During his illness, Roosevelt, in a strange choice of literature, kept reciting the opening line of a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.” When the team returned safely to civilization, they realized that they had discovered a 1,500-kilometer river that was later named “Teodoro...
Harvard played a significant role in the Roosevelt family. Theodore enjoyed dining at the Porcellian, a final club on Mass Ave., and O’Toole writes that the Porc “ranked close behind the Rough Riders [Roosevelt’s Spanish-American War regiment] in TR’s affections.” All four of his sons studied at the College...