Description: "Chronicles the friendship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, who encouraged one another to mine the greatness that lay within each of them despite the political disagreements that almost tore them apart"--
Brief description: Laurence Jurdem, Ph.D., is currently an adjunct professor of history at Fairfield University and Fordham College's Lincoln Center campus. Mr. Jurdem is also the author of Paving the Way for Reagan: The Influence of Conservative Media on U.S. Foreign Policy. A frequent writer on American politics, his articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Connecticut.
Review Quotes: "A remarkable 35-year friendship that was nurtured by some 2,500 letters. That correspondence forms the foundation for Laurence Jurdem's lively narrative, The Rough Rider and the Professor, rendered in unadorned prose and with a touching sympathy for his subjects. Mr. Jurdem illuminates not only the momentous lives of these two powerful figures and the affection they held for each other but also the history of America from the 1880s to the 1920s."--The Wall Street Journal