In 1898, Theodore Roosevelt was a pencil-pushing desk jockey with no clear political future. Six months later, he was the war-hero governor-elect of New York and well on his way to the presidential ticket. How'd he do it?Follow along as Roosevelt pushes the nation toward war with Spain, quits the safety of his Washington desk job to fight in Cuba, comes home a war hero with a bright political future, rises to the white house, then father's the modern progressive movement and overcomes treaties, disease, jungles, and international intrigue to build the Panama Canal.Bibliography1. T.R. the last Romantic – H.R. Brands2. The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century – Scott Miller3. William Howard Taft – Jeffrey Rosen 4. The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made – Patricia O’Toole5. Grover Cleveland – Henry F. Graff6. Rutherford B. Hayes – Hans. L. Trefousse7. The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur – Scott S. Greenberger

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