Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914). Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen. 1904.
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| NOW that by good luck I have after all presented in something like orderly fashion the main facts in Theodore Roosevelt’s career,—of which every one knows more or less, and which he regards as more or less significant, according to his attitude toward the old college professor’s prediction, many years ago, that his students might rate our people’s fitness for self-government by the headway Roosevelt made with his ideals and ambitions—now that we have got so far, I can hear my reader ask: “But about himself; about the man, the friend? You promised to tell us. We want to know.” And so you shall. I am going to tell you now,—at least, I am going to try. Here, a whole week, have I been walking about the garden, upon which winter |