He loved stirring things up. And that's what he did when he became New York City's police commissioner in 1895. Cloaked in black, hat pulled low, Theodore stalked the city's streets at night. Was a criminal in the act? Was a policeman snoring when he was supposed to be keeping the peace? Soon the culprit would be looking into eyes narrowed behind their spectacles, and bright white teeth like a row of tombstones.

Stories of overcoming - my favories. Just as young Abe Lincoln overcame poverty and isolation, young Teddy Roosevelt overcame persistent puniness and sickness. They became the great individuals of their times. How? They read, studied, and worked. Few American presidents have so enjoyed the office, have so captured America's imaginations as jolly, opinionated, vigorous, bull-headded author, naturalist, explorer, statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, big game hunter, President Theodore Roosevelt.