About the Author

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)was the 26th president of the United States, the youngest man ever to serve in the office. In his vigorous and varied life he was also a reformer, rancher, conservationist, hunter, prolific historian, police commissioner, soldier, and the 33rd governor of New York.

Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was the author ofmore than 50 works of fiction, literary criticism, biography, and history.