Forging a President
How the Wild West Created Teddy Roosevelt
By William Hazelgrove
By using Roosevelt's own reflections to immerse readers in the formative seasons that America's twenty-sixth president spent in the Wild West of the Dakota Territory, the author illustrates his transformation from a Harvard graduate into a rugged cowboy statesman. From a sickly, weak young man with asthma who had experienced profound loss, through his sheer will to become a cowboy and rancher, the West remade Roosevelt, and the rest is history. Thirty-five chapters. Hardcover. 267 pages.
Forging a President
