Theodore Roosevelt: A Manly President's Gendered Personal and Political Transformations

Theodore Roosevelt explores the personal and political life of the 26th President of the United States. It considers among other things his "manliness," a gendered framework of traits for the Gilded Age and Progressive Period guiding him and other men in business, politics, and war, and shows how the development of these traits transformed Roosevelt’s personal and political decisions.

The work covers a storied personal life and emphasizes mental and physical challenges from depression, asthm...