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Founders Notes: Theodore Roosevelt

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Churchill Paul Johnson As Theodore Roosevelt once remarked of a financial crisis: "When people have lost their money, they strike out unthinkingly, like a wounded snake, at whoever is most prominent in the line of vision." The Chief David Nasaw That Theodore Roosevelt, who was less than five years older, was already so far ahead of him only whetted Hearst's ambitions. It is impossible to measure the depths of his loathing for Roosevelt. The House of Morgan Ron Chernow McKinley's assassination would be a turning point in Pierpont Morgan's life, for it installed in the presidency Theodore Roosevelt, a man whose view of big business was far more ambivalent than his predecessor's. Theodore Roosevelt David Senra That was an excerpt from the book that we're talking about today, which is Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, and is written by David McCullough. Before I get into the book, I'm going to start telling you where the author tells us why he actually wrote the book, I want to tell you why I'm reading the book. So Theodore Roosevelt has been a supporting character in a lot of the biog

Churchill Paul Johnson As Theodore Roosevelt once remarked of a financial crisis: "When people have lost their money, they strike out unthinkingly, like a wounded snake, at whoever is most prominent in the line of vision." The Chief David Nasaw That Theodore Roosevelt, who was less than five years older, was already so far ahead of him only whetted Hearst's ambitions. It is impossible to measure the depths of his loathing for Roosevelt. The House of Morgan Ron Chernow McKinley's assassination would be a turning point in Pierpont Morgan's life, for it installed in the presidency Theodore…

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