The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)

by Edmund Morris

Like all Americans, I like big things; big prairies, big forests and mountains, big wheat-fields, railroads, and herds of cattle too, big factories, steamboats, and everything else. But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefitted by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue

The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand.