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Theodore Roosevelt Early Years and Public Life Beginnings
Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Alice Lee spend time with the author's mother at 6 West Fifty-seventh Street in 1881, then travel to Europe. Roosevelt essays on art, politics, and patriotism, becomes a New York assemblyman, leads reform efforts, faces independent opposition, and starts a public career that includes police reform and civil service roles.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Alice Lee
West Fifty-seventh Street
Europe
Paris
Louvre
Greuze
Rubens
Venus
Brussels
Minerva
Diana
Rembrandt
Gustav Dore
Squeers
Nicholas Nickleby
Winder
Phe
Joseph Murray
New York State Assembly
Fifty-seventh Street
Albany
New York State
Nineteenth Century Club
Evening Post
Saat
Sam
Theodore
New York
New York Times
Westbrook
Ward
Manhattan Railroad Company
Elevated
Alvord
North Dakota
Assembly
West
Dakota
Joseph Bucklin Bishop
John F. Edmunds
Vermont
James G. Blaine
Bishop
Roosevelt
Henry Cabot Lodge
Blaine
Republican Party
Chicago
Henry George
Abram S. Hewitt
Hewitt
Edith Carew
Sorrento
Rome
Benton
Edith
Savage Club
Healy
Parnellites
Lord Stanhope
Seton Carr
London
Stanhope
Foster
Ireland
House of Commons
Bryce
Sagamore Hill
Sagamore
Progressive Party
Crawford
Bears
Rockies
Civil Service
Washington
Oyster Bay
Cabot
Senator Lodge
Tom Reed
Senator Davis
Minnesota
New York City
Police Department
Vienna
Tenth Street
Broadway
Mulberry Street
Ger