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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 211. Chapters: Theodore Roosevelt, Robert F. Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Joss Whedon, Rod Serling, Gore Vidal, Thomas Pynchon, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis E. Dec, Frederick Buechner, Sidney Lumet, Joseph J. Romm, Alice Fulton, Washington Irving, Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Anita Loos, Walt Whitman, Jack Dann, Tim Russert, Pamela Geller, David Foster Wallace, Robert T. Craig (scholar), Upton Sinclair, Phyllis Chesler, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Auster, Frederik Pohl, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Samuel R. Delany, Jeff Ragsdale, Thomas E. Dewey, Henry Miller, Elliott Roosevelt, Charles Woodruff Yost, Martin Gardner, Andy Rooney, Jonathan Lethem, Donald E. Westlake, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Eli Siegel, Barthold Fles, Donald A. Wollheim. Excerpt: Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt ( -z -velt; October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909). A Republican, he is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the first incarnation of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year. Roosevelt was also the first of only three sitting presidents to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Roosevelt was a sickly child who suffered from asthma and stayed at...
