The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley [608]
as civil service
commissioner, 14, 212, 217, 223, 226, 231, 235, 236, 248, 251, 253–56, 261, 267, 274, 287
class-consciousness of, 136, 160
clothes of, 98, 130, 131, 169, 178, 180, 182, 193, 250, 315, 316, 378, 513, 545, 609, 614, 676, 772
collecting of, 30–31, 32–33, 41, 57, 63, 73, 91, 94, 97–98, 109, 123, 131, 268, 794
at Columbia law school, 137, 138
concentration of, 141, 227
conflict-of-interest charges against, 236
as conservation visionary, 19–21, 245–47, 689
death of, 45, 247, 741, 757
as deputy sheriff, 191–93, 192, 313
drinking of, 314, 384–85, 610
eating habits of, 47, 71, 234, 438, 609, 618
in Egypt, 55–58, 56, 59
in election of 1888, 211–12
in election of 1898, 331
in election of 1900, 294, 355–56, 373–76, 375
in election of 1904, 61, 389, 406, 422, 502, 507, 524, 527, 553, 568, 572–77, 573, 597
in election of 1912, 94–95, 119, 816–17
emotions bottled up by, 167
European travels of, 35–38, 53, 54–55, 59–60, 62, 63, 65, 102, 138, 140–41, 196, 222, 227, 416
expansionism of, 298, 302, 384, 471, 531, 534, 797
expressions used by, 104n, 115, 156
as father, 230, 356, 429, 553, 579, 753
as “father” of the frontier thesis, 241
financial concerns of, 165, 191, 197, 214
fitness regime of, 93–94, 104, 105, 108, 110, 115, 795, 808–9
fortitude, vitality, and energy of, 104, 122, 141, 160, 162, 227
German of, 102, 131
as governor, 11, 14, 337–61, 338, 364, 365, 368–72, 376–77, 390, 392, 403, 415, 477, 772
“grand holiday” of, 230–35
Great Loop tour of, 502–53, 556, 578
as Great White Chief, 160, 255, 581, 610
gregariousness of, 12, 13, 396–97, 433, 768
as gubernatorial candidate, 331, 333–36
at Harvard, see Harvard University
hazing incident of, 93, 105, 109, 118, 164–65
health problems of, 22, 36–37, 54, 56, 59, 65, 68, 93, 100, 113, 115, 116, 118, 124, 126, 133, 135, 151, 154, 181, 350, 428–29, 594
as historian, 164, 231, 241–44, 262; see also Naval War of 1812, The; Winning of the West, The
homeschooling of, 68, 96
homesickness of, 128, 137, 140, 181
house leased out by, 165
house purchased by, 147
inauguration parade of (1905), 581–83
inheritance of, 110, 142, 191
insomnia of, 123, 136, 167
investments of, 148, 153, 162, 165, 168, 170, 191, 198
keen hearing of, 31, 73, 97, 158
Latin of, 65
in launching of modern conservation movement, 5, 13–21
law-and-order attitude of, 242
legacy of, 753–54, 788–89, 815–16
as “man’s man,” 163
marriages of, see Roosevelt, Alice Lee; Roosevelt, Edith Carow
as master builder, 535
mayoral campaign of, 196
mental health of, 109, 123–24
mountaineering of, 116–19, 127, 140, 173
natural history education of, 22–45, 103, 164, 186
naturalist career abandoned by, 143–46
in New York assembly, 142–43, 150, 154, 165, 166–67, 168, 185, 190, 226
optimism of, 12, 14–15, 109, 153, 198, 393
as outdoors writer, influences on, 25–28, 83
patricians rejected by, 227–28
as police commissioner, 287–89
political career considered by, 123, 331
political stagnation of, 212, 377–78
powers of observation of, 130
as president, 1–3, 5, 6, 8, 11–21, 24, 181, 211, 215, 224, 238, 239, 253, 367, 396–816
puritanical streak of, 71, 134, 177, 224, 287
racism and ethnocentrism of, 243, 255, 274–75
as rancher, 6, 161, 162, 164, 167–71, 175, 189, 191, 198, 233
religious practices of, 56, 522–23, 614
romantic vision of, 153, 161, 177, 198, 233, 394
self-confidence of, 111, 115–16, 266
self-criticism of, 113, 196
self-reflection of, 211–12
sketching of, 33, 34, 38, 53, 138, 669
in Spanish-American War, 13, 18, 27, 310–36, 316, 326, 336, 354, 475, 508
spectacles of, 31, 94–95, 156, 159
strenuous life preached by, 68, 227, 331, 348–51, 355, 380, 412, 427, 429, 544, 568, 603, 614, 795, 808, 813
as Teddy, 444–45
as traitor to his class, 355, 409, 675
as transforming agent, 14
trust-busting of, 20, 634–35
as vice president, 11, 14, 40, 63, 376–78, 384–95
as vice presidential nominee, 355–56, 373–76, 375
writing habits of, 213–14, 223
writing style of, 28, 175, 180, 223
Roosevelt, Theodore,