roosevelt, theodore

Examines the life and presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, who left the legacy of our country's national parks.

Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values.

Chronicles the first decade of the Progressive Era, detailing the reform movements that defined this period and discussing how this reflects on the political climate tody. Also surveys the 1912 presidential campaign between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, revealing how their competition changed their friendship and altered the course of American history.

The complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. They cover the formative years of his life and show the transformation of a sickly and solitary Harvard freshman into a confident and increasingly robust young adult. The entries cover the premature death of his father, his courtship and marriage to his first wife, the death of his first wife and his mother on the same day, his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. His descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York.

Ken Burns chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962.

Explores the responses to and effects on the nation of President Theodore Roosevelt's White House dinner with Booker T. Washington, a former slave. Examines the society of post-slavery America and the reputations of Roosevelt and Washington.

Looks at turn-of-the-century New York with its prostitutes, casinos, all night bars, and how police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt attempted to clean up the city.

Provides an account of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency.

Chronicles the lives and political careers of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.