Originally published: New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1979; this updated version first appeared as a trade paperback by Modern Library, 2001.

Continued by: Theodore Rex.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [783]-788) and index.

New Year's Day, 1907
pt. 1. 1858-1886 : The very small person ; The mind, but not the body ; The man with the morning in his face ; The swell in the dog-cart ; The political hack ; The cyclone assemblyman ; The fighting cock ; The dude from New York ; The honorable gentleman ; The delegate-at-large ; The cowboy of the present ; The four-eyed maverick ; The long arm of the law ; The next mayor of New York
Interlude: Winter of the blue snow, 1886-1887
pt. 2. 1887-1901 : The literary feller ; The silver-plated reform commissioner
The dear old beloved brother
The universe spinner
The biggest man in New York
The snake in the grass
The glorious retreat ; The hot weather secretary ; The lieutenant colonel ; The rough rider ; The wolf rising in the heart ; The most famous man in America ; The boy governor ; The man of destiny
September 1901

A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, covering the years from his birth in 1858 to 1901 when, with the death of President McKinley, he became the youngest president of the United States