A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt is the first comprehensive anthology to encompass Roosevelt as whole, highlighting both his personality and his skilled diplomacy. Revitalizes and internationalizes scholarship on this most popular and highly-rated American president Covers many aspects of Roosevelts personality and his policies, domestic and foreign, to create a complete picture of the man Provides scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, from established Roosevelt specialists, respected scholars, and a new generation of historians A new and fresh historiographical exploration of Roosevelts life and ideas, political career and achievements, and his legacies
List of Figures x Notes on Contributors xi Introduction: An All-Time Historian s Favorite 1 Serge Ricard 1. The Education of Theodore Roosevelt 8 Michael L. Collins 2. Theodore Roosevelt s Early Political Career: The Making of an Independent Republican and Urban Progressive 27 Edward P. Kohn 3. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Spanish-American War Hero 45 Joseph Smith 4. The Rough Rider as Super-Politician: Theodore Roosevelt s Ascendancy on the National Political Stage 59 Steven Doherty 5. Preparedness and Defense: The Origins of Theodore Roosevelt s Strategy for the United States on the International Stage 78 J. Simon Rofe 6. Roosevelt s Republic 94 Joshua D. Hawley 7. Sex and Gender in Roosevelt s America 112 Andrew M. Johnston 8. A Serious Art and Literature of Our Own : Exploring Theodore Roosevelt s Art World 135 Stephen L. Levine 9. Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential Power and the Regulation of the Market 154 Gary Murphy 10. The Quality of Theodore Roosevelt s Environmentalism 173 Ethan Fishman 11. Theodore Roosevelt and the Indians 186 Roger L. Nichols 12. Half a Southerner : President Roosevelt, African Americans and the South 198 Adam D. Burns 13. Theodore Roosevelt and the Press 216 John M. Thompson 14. Theodore Roosevelt and the Joys of Family Life 237 Jon L. Brudvig 15. The Global Strategist: The Navy as the Nation s Big Stick 257 Carl Cavanagh Hodge 16. Theodore Roosevelt, the Panama Canal, and the Roosevelt Corollary: Sphere of Influence Diplomacy 274 Stephen G. Rabe 17. Theodore Roosevelt and Canada: Alaska, the Big Stick and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1901 1909 293 Tony McCulloch 18. Anglo-American Partnership: The Foundation of Theodore Roosevelt s Foreign Policy 314 William N. Tilchin 19. Theodore Roosevelt and the Special Relationship with France 329 David G. Haglund 20. America s First Intervention in European Politics: Theodore Roosevelt and the European Crisis of 1905 1906 350 Douglas Eden 21. The End of an Era: Theodore Roosevelt and the Treaty of Portsmouth 368 Eugene P. Trani and Donald E. Davis 22. Japanese-American Relations: The 1906 California Crisis, the Gentlemen s Agreement, and the World Cruise 391 David S. Patterson 23. Uplifting the Barbarian 417 Carol C. Chin 24. Roosevelt in Africa 435 Patricia O Toole 25. The New Nationalism and Progressive Issues: The Break with Taft and the 1912 Campaign 452 Claire Delahaye 26. The Great War, Americanism Revisited, and the Anti-Wilson Crusade 468 Lloyd E. Ambrosius 27. Theodore Roosevelt s Contradictory Legacies: From Imperialist Nationalism to Advocacy of a Progressive Welfare State 485 Kathleen M. Dalton 28. The Memory of Theodore Roosevelt through Motion Pictures 502 M. Patrick Cullinane Conclusion: A Rooseveltian Century? 521 Serge Ricard Bibliography 528 Index 561
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