Theodore Roosevelt, An Intimate Biography

This biography of T. Roosevelt is by William Roscoe Thayer, a friend. Thayer writes: "Regardless of popular lukewarmness at the start, and of persistent official thwarting throughout, he roused the conscience of the nation to a sense of its duty and of its honor. What gratitude can repay one who rouses the conscience of a nation? Roosevelt sacrificed his life for patriotism as surely as if he had died leading a charge in the Battle of the Marne."