CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 7 ROUGH RIDERS 4 POLITICAL SETBACKS 58 CHAPTER 8 ROOSEVELT FAMILY TREE 12 A LEADER IN DIFFICULT TIMES 72 CHAPTER 2 THEODORE S WORLD 14 CHAPTER 9 TURBULENCE AND TRIUMPH 84 CHAPTER 3 A NEW FAMILY BUSINESS 20 TIMELINE 98 CHAPTER 4 A HERO COMES ALONG FUN FACTS 100 28 GLOSSARY 102 CHAPTER 5 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 THE PEOPLE S PRESIDENT 40 SOURCE NOTES 106 INDEX 110 CHAPTER 6 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112 PASSING THE TORCH 48
ROUGH ED RIDERS He was president of the United States and vice president before that He served as governor of New York and police commissioner of New York City However the title Theodore Roosevelt cherished the most was colonel the military rank he held during the Spanish American War in 1898 There he planted the seeds that would grow into a political dynasty His exceptional bravery under enemy fire strength of character and determination would become the Roosevelt legacy Theodore served as assistant secretary of the US Navy in 1898 At that time tensions between Spain and the United States over Cuban independence were about to explode into all out war Cuba had been a Spanish colony since 1492 Freedom fighters in Cuba had tried to win In the Spanish American War Theodore became a larger than life
