This biography of young Theodore Roosevelt covers his youth when he demanded a strenuous life despite his asthma, weak eyes, and patrician family.

Genealogical table on lining papers. Includes index.

Author's Note -- Part one. Greatheart's Circle -- Lady from the South -- Grand Tour -- A Disease of the Direct Suffering -- Metamorphosis -- Part two. Uptown -- The Moral Effect -- Father and Son -- Part three. Harvard -- Especially Pretty Alice -- Home Is the Hunter -- Politics -- Strange and Terrible Fate -- Chicago -- Glory Days -- Return -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.