Excerpt from The Story of Theodore Roosevelt When one thinks of the kind of man that Americans want an American to be one naturally thinks of Theo dore Roosevelt. He was in so many ways an example of fine citizenship that he is held up to the youth of our land as a type of what they may well strive to be. And he won this place in the hearts of our people by hard work. He did not easily become a sturdy, active, strenuous leader of his fellows. His whole life was a struggle: first, a struggle to become physically fit, then a struggle to become mentally fit, and finally a struggle to become politically fit. Things did not come easily to young Roosevelt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.