Theodore Roosevelt

William Davison Johnston's TR: Champion of the Strenuous Life, a photographic biography of Theodore Roosevelt, is mainly a long list of the occupations and roles held by Roosevelt in his life. Johnston wants to show that Roosevelt was far more than a "soldier," "politician" and "distinguished public figure" (Johnston 9). The author gives the reader a brief look at the many other positions and roles held by Roosevelt in his life. These include frontiersman, rancher, husband and father, civil service and police commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Rough Rider, colonel and war hero, Governor of New York state, author, Vice-President and President, trust-buster, builder of the Panama Canal, peacemaker, public speaker, conservationist, hunter, scholar, world traveler, progressive, jungle explorer, gr

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