The Roosevelts by Ward, Geoffrey C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface by Ken Burns Introduction Chapter 1: Get Action: 1858–1901

Hyde Park and Oyster Bay Teedie, Mittie, and Great-Heart A House Divided Hip! Hip! Hurrah! You Must Make Your Body A Superabundance of Energy See Here, Roosevelt He Was Everything to Me The Sunny-Faced Queen So Much Enjoyment in the Country Who’s the Dude? The Light Has Gone Out of My Life The Party Is Most of All Black Care Rarely Sits Behind a Rider Whose Pace Is Fast Enough Edith Sagamore A Thorn in Our Side The Moral Maniac and Little Nell Midnight Rambles The Peacefulness and Regularity of Things Getting On Very Well with the Fellows The Supreme Triumphs The Wolf Rises in the Heart The Coming American The Thing Could Not Be Helped The Disgusting Business About Taddy Here Is the Task

Chapter 2: In the Arena: 1901–1910

The Gift of Leadership How Do You Like It? In Duty Bound A Wonderful Escape Made for the People The Greatest Disappointment Teddy’s Bear Breathing the Free Western Air I Took the Canal Zone E Is an Angel Bedlam Let Loose The Steam-Engine in Trousers A Festival of Rejoicing We Are Greatly Rejoiced The First Inauguration in the Family A Royal Alliance A Scrumptious Time A Mighty Good Thing The White House Gang Never Anything but Trouble I Attack Inequities A Colossal Blunder While Our Civilization Lasts A Heart Well-Nigh Broken Oughtn’t We All Be Proud? My Future Is in the Past Bwana Mkubwa Sana The Force of His Personality All Franklin’s Plans

Chapter 3: The Fire of Life: 1910–1919

I’m Not Teddy Quiescence … Is an Impossibility Roosevelts Run True to Form We Stand at Armageddon Your Slave and Servant The Great Fight for Righteousness I’d Like It Bully Well My Last Chance to Be a Boy The Complete Smash-up Fifth Cousin by Blood, and Nephew by Law! The Visitor The Cry of a Broken Heart A Very Exclusive War You Must Do What You Think You Cannot Do Uncuriously Enough, His Name Is Roosevelt The Lion’s Brood A Man Must Be What He Is The Old Lion

Chapter 4: The Storm: 1920–1933

Breaking the Heart of the World That Fight Can Still Be Won We Must Go Forward or Flounder The Most Killing Thing People Tire Quickly of Ideals Doing Things on My Own Franklin Has Been Quite Ill My God, He Was Brave Becoming an Individual The Grand and Glorious Occasion Sunburned and in Fine Shape Not a Thing to Lose The Foremost Figure on the Platform A Rough Stunt Old Doctor Roosevelt The Peace of It Is Divine Talking the Language of Men You’ve Got to Play the Game I Cannot Give It Up The Pirate and the Lady A Matter of Social Duty To Meet Any Demand An Unprecedented and Unusual Time The Out-of-Season Roosevelts All Light and No Darkness The Turmoil in My Heart These Things Are to Be Expected The Only Thing We Have to Fear

Chapter 5: The Rising Road: 1933–1939

Franklin Is a Man Take a Method and Try It My Friends The First One Hundred Days A Working Woman A World of Love Arthurdale Happy Birthday, Mr. President A New Deal for Black Americans A Vile Form of Collective Murder “Rosy” Returns to Warm Springs Putting Americans to Work Trouble, Left and Right A Never-Ending Voyage That Man in the White House Clash of the Clans A Rendezvous with Destiny The Nine Old Men and the Roosevelt Recession A Terrible Thing All the Luck in the World!

Chapter 6: The Common Cause: 1939–1944

The Sphinx I Can Feel Little Pity The Scene Has Darkened Two Times Is Enough for Any Man America’s Answer to Hitlerism Safe on Third The Arsenal of Democracy The Wrong War in the Wrong Ocean at the Wrong Time Let the Negro Masses Speak “Mrs. Johnson” Making a Get-Away He Was Always “My Boy …” My Idea of Hell Whatever Is Asked of Us Nothing to Conceal Executive Order 9066 Roosevelt, C. in C. Here’s Our Answer, President Roosevelt Dear God, Please Make Eleanor a Little Tired We Are Dealing with an Insane Man Unconditional Surrender The Bottom Has Dropped Out An American Mother The Final Authority There Must Be Something Definitely Wrong

Chapter 7: A Strong and Active Faith: 1944–1962

A Very Quiet Time Pride of Our Nation The Contrariest Goddamn Mule It Scared the Hell out of Us The Tired Old Man The Trend of Civilization … Is Forever Upward I Know That You Will Pardon Me Slipping Away Going Home We Have to Start Again It Is Wonderful to Feel Free A Girl He Never Knew We Will Have to Talk A Liberal Conscience I Know Nothing of Politics A Good Deal of My Uncle Theodore The Great Organizer

Acknowledgments A Word About Sources Index Illustration Credits Film Credits A Note About the Authors Other Books by the Authors