Theodore Roosevelt Administrations - The Roosevelt Administration Legacy
The Roosevelt Administration Legacy
Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris, two well-known and highly respected U.S. historians, state in the "Editor's Introduction" to George Mowry's The Era of Theodore Roosevelt that Roosevelt "ushered in a revolution—a revolution as significant in its way as the industrial revolution of almost a century earlier." They go on to say that the revolution inaugurated by Roosevelt "has gone on, not without challenge but without serious interruption, to our time, and in a very real sense we can say that the modern age began when Roosevelt took over the Presidency on September 14, 1901." Roosevelt was able to successfully inaugurate this revolution partially by the force of his personality, which won the hearts and the allegiance of many of his fellow citizens. Roosevelt himself recognized that without public support no significant changes could be effected. He also was a skilled politician...
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