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by Doris Kearns Goodwin


  Medora, 111, 123, 159

  “Memories” (Edith Roosevelt), 119

  Memphis, Tenn., 214, 219

  Mercy Hospital, 733–34

  Meredith, Owen, 118

  Meriden, Conn., 419

  Merrifield, Bill, 110, 124

  Metropolitan magazine, 745–46

  Meyer, George, 563, 567, 592

  Miami University of Ohio, 88

  Michigan, 152, 534, 665, 673, 685

  Michigan, University of, 267

  Michigan Agricultural College, 181

  Michigan State College, 181, 354

  Middlebury College, 162

  middle class, 189

  trusts and, 254

  Middle East, 41

  Midwest, 300, 450, 474

  farmers in, 191

  radical candidates in, 192

  Wilson in, 727

  Milan, 331

  Miles, Nelson, 223

  Mill, John Stuart, 93

  Millbury, Mass., 22, 303, 532

  Miller, William, 145, 148, 152, 154

  Millet, Frank, 683

  Milton, John, 117

  Milwaukee, Wisc., 139, 601, 732–33

  Milwaukee Hospital, 733

  mines, miners, 11, 158, 527

  children in, 311–12

  hazardous conditions in, 638

  non-union, 402–3

  silver, 307

  strike by coal, 311–19

  minimum wage, 76–77

  Minneapolis, Minn., 293, 324, 369

  Steffens on corruption in, 371–72, 373, 374

  Minneapolis Journal, 345, 408, 423

  Minneapolis Times, 400

  Minneapolis Tribune, 384

  Minnesota, 344, 371, 400, 565, 587, 603, 643, 657

  insurgents in, 627

  Minnesota State Fair, 293

  Mischler, Wendell W., 503

  Miss Comstock’s School, 117, 123

  Mississippi, 306, 349, 376, 456

  Mississippi River, 601

  Mississippi Valley, 189

  Missouri, 123, 270, 339, 345, 377–78, 414, 422, 650, 684, 705

  Steffens on corruption in, 375–76

  Missouri River, 607

  Missouri Supreme Court, 372–73

  Miss Sattery’s School for Italian Children, 37

  Mitchell, John, 311–18, 356

  Mitchell, S. Weir, 328

  Mobil, 443

  Moderate Party, Cuban, 505–6

  Modern Instance, A (Howells), 163, 190

  Monetary Commission, 601

  monopolies, 171, 172, 194, 218, 307, 330, 386, 404, 606, 669

  congressional action against, 342

  oil, 201

  Standard Oil as, 441

  see also anti-trust

  Monroe Doctrine, 294, 350

  Monson Academy, 22

  Montague, Gilbert, 340

  Montana, 349, 351, 517, 608, 609, 610, 683

  irrigation project in, 352

  Montauk, N.Y., 232, 235

  Mont Blanc, 469

  Montpelier, Vt., 411–12

  Montreal, 665

  Montserrat Club, 582

  Montserrat Station, 599

  Moody, John, 529

  Moody, William, 502, 505

  Moore, Frederick E., 105

  Moore & Schley, 529

  Moore Lime Company, 102

  Moore’s & Co. v. Bricklayers’ Union et al., 102, 216

  More, Eleanor Herron, 581–82

  Morgan, John, 321

  Morgan, J. P., 31, 294, 322, 388, 617

  banking house of, 418, 683

  on coal strike, 317–19

  as “one-man Federal Reserve,” 528–29

  United States Steel and, 297–98, 299, 667

  Morgan-Guggenheim Company, 611, 617

  Morgans, 386, 450

  Morley, John, 5

  Morocco, 426, 428

  Morris, Gouverneur, 129

  Morris, Sylvia, 128, 306

  Morris, William, 168

  Morse, Charles W., 527–28

  Morton, Levi, 147

  Morton, Paul, 250

  Morton Hall, 67

  Mount Holyoke College, 22

  Mowry, George, 300, 481

  “Mrs. Roosevelt: The Woman in the Background” (Daggett), 576–77

  Mt. Auburn, Ohio, 21, 24, 25, 87, 149

  Mt. Vernon, 580

  mugwumps, 235

  Muir, John, 351

  Municipal Voters’ League, Chicago, 368

  Munn v. Illinois, 192

  Munsey, Frank, 683, 708–9

  Munsey Building, 683

  Murdock, Victor, 627

  Murray, Annie, 4

  Murray, Joe, 7, 67–68

  Murray Bay, 219, 411, 412–13, 502–4

  Muskogee, Okla., 439

  “My Country, Tis of Thee,” 305

  “My Dream Castles” (Edith Roosevelt), 118–19

  Myopia Hunt Club, 582, 599, 613

  Myrdal, Gunnar, 494

  Nahant, Mass., 640

  Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 176–77, 225, 330

  Narraganset Pier, 91

  Narramore case, 217–18

  Nashville, Tenn., 214

  Nast, Thomas, 83

  Nation, 165, 279

  Nation, Carrie, 407

  National Cathedral School, 367, 414, 577

  National Civil Federation (NCF), Women’s Welfare Department of, 577

  National Conservation League, 627

  national forests, 517

  National Geographic Society, 653

  National Herald, 660

  National Irrigation Congress, 608, 611

  national monuments, 466

  national parks, 351

  National Progressive League, 656

  National Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party), 712, 714–15, 722–29, 732–33, 735–36, 738, 740–41

  convention of, 714, 717, 718–23, 727

  National Rifle Association, 664

  National Tribune, 531, 619, 621, 622, 670

  natural resources, 173

  protection of, 11, 12

  Naval War of 1812, The (Roosevelt), 65–66

  Navy, U.S., 285, 294, 296, 350

  Asiatic Fleet of, 223

  Portsmouth base of, 433

  TR as assistant secretary of, 203, 213, 221–23, 500

  Navy Department, U.S., 203, 223–24, 249–50

  Nebraska, 191, 248, 313, 511, 523, 628, 643, 670

  direct primary in, 684

  negligence, 217

  Neidig, Robert, 364–65

  Neill, Charles P., 462

  Nelson, Knute, 344, 593, 625, 714

  Nelson, William, 534

  Nelson amendment, 344–45

  Nevada, 263

  irrigation project in, 352

  Newberry, Truman, 567

  New England, 23, 222, 267, 277, 313, 414, 476, 602

  insurgency in, 628

  TR’s campaign against trusts in, 307–8

  New Freedom, 730–31

  New Hampshire, 308, 671, 682

  New Haven, Conn., 22, 23, 32, 105, 149, 647, 650, 663

  New Jersey, 7, 115, 413, 497, 651, 674, 713, 722

  direct primary in, 684, 696

  railroads in, 445

  Newlands Reclamation Act, 306

  New Mexico, 249, 250

  statehood for, 466, 638

  New Nationalism, 643–45, 651, 719, 731–32

  New Orleans, La., 337, 733

  Newport, R.I., 366–67

  New Republic, 643–44

  Newsboys’ Lodging House, 37

  newspaper and magazine publishers’ dinner, 339

  newspapers, 674, 675

  progressive, 406

  in wake of Panic of 1893, 169

  newspaper syndicates, 173

  McClure’s, 166–70, 476

  Newton, Isaac, 94

  Newton, Kans., 251

  New Woman:

  Nellie Taft as, 220, 578

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nbsp; Tarbell as, 339

  New York, N.Y., 22, 47, 51, 99, 100, 109–10, 112, 115, 123, 126, 134, 143, 166, 178, 180, 193, 220, 221, 226, 228, 231, 234, 242, 249, 261, 300, 317, 327, 329, 331, 354, 355, 358, 369, 440, 472, 473, 480, 495, 524, 525, 532, 555, 556, 577, 619, 624, 637, 639, 661, 677, 681, 684, 730, 731, 734, 737

  Alphonso Taft’s distaste for, 23

  builders’ union in, 362–64

  Fuller Construction Company in, 362–64

  Harry Taft in, 104

  legal community of, 299

  Lower East Side of, 168

  McClure’s in, 175–76

  machine politicians in, 67–68, 155, 246, 255, 266; see also Platt, Thomas Collier; Tammany Hall

  police corruption in, 371

  as social center, 578

  Steffens on corruption in, 369, 373–74

  Sunday closing laws in, 209–11

  TR asked to run for mayor of, 155–56

  TR as police commissioner of, 7, 156, 195, 200–201, 203–14, 217, 228, 232, 242, 244, 387

  TR’s arrival in, 1, 2–3, 13, 19–20

  TR’s childhood in, 4

  TR’s weekly visits to, 242–43, 246, 256–57

  Washington compared to, 134–35

  White and, 188–89, 195, 282, 439, 492

  New York American, 594, 599, 641

  New York Central Railroad, 179, 418

  New York Commercial Advertiser, 213, 235, 236, 237, 243, 247, 248–49, 256–57, 259

  New York County Committee, 640

  New York Court of Appeals, 78

  New York Customs House, 138

  New York Evening Journal, 226

  New York Evening Mail, 529

  New York Evening Post, 155, 207, 211, 322, 464, 551, 592, 651

  anti-TR policy at, 255–57, 413

  Steffens at, 195, 199–200, 208, 212–13, 242

  New York Evening Sun, 204, 205

  New York Evening World, 461, 681

  New York Harbor, 3

  New York Herald, 70, 72, 75, 151, 299, 413

  New York Journal, 228

  New York Post, 463

  New York Press, 177, 228, 592

  New York Public Library, 333

  New York state, 23, 45, 277, 284, 297, 333, 413, 414, 481–82, 513, 535, 547, 549, 556, 639, 650, 651, 684, 704

  bosses in, 641, 647, 701

  direct primaries in, 687, 688–89, 696

  1912 Republican convention in, 648–49

  nominating system in, 686

  reformers defeated in, 380

  TR as governor of, 213, 239–59, 239, 272, 274, 368, 387, 481, 500

  TR’s popularity in, 273

  western, 555

  New York State Assembly, 88, 110, 246

  TR in, 7, 68–79, 82, 83–85, 126, 138, 213, 232

  New York Stock Exchange, 528–29

  New York Sun, 70, 280, 294, 356, 482, 487, 488, 501, 568, 698

  on Taft, 504, 508, 522, 571

  on Taft’s candidacy, 549, 551

  on Taft’s inauguration, 569

  on TR, 128, 137, 208, 280, 415, 423, 523, 527, 679, 736

  on TR’s New Nationalism, 644–45

  New York Times, 2, 70, 81, 385, 413, 457, 461, 463, 465–66, 641, 656, 729

  on Addyston pipe case, 218

  on assassination attempt on TR, 734

  on Brownsville incident, 513, 514

  on Bull Moose Convention, 719, 721

  on Campbell incident, 59

  on Carow bankruptcy, 116

  on corporate campaign contributions, 417

  on La Follette, 673, 675

  on muckrakers, 538

  on Nellie, 16, 576, 579

  on 1912 state conventions, 685

  reviews of TR’s books by, 66, 112

  on Senate elections, 291–92

  on Steffens, 375

  on Taft, 105, 519, 521, 638

  on Taft and the tariff, 592, 599, 602, 603, 604

  on Taft’s candidacy, 549, 551

  on Taft’s Senior Oration at Yale, 32

  on TR, 73, 74, 238, 409, 565, 603, 642

  on TR and the tariff, 309–10

  on TR as anti-business, 527

  TR-Edith engagement announced in, 125

  on TR Senior’s death, 45

  on TR’s 1912 candidacy, 604, 606, 650, 651, 670, 679–80, 687, 695, 702, 706–7

  on TR’s presidency, 285, 287

  on TR’s return, 6–7, 10

  on TR-Wanamaker conflict, 140

  on Washington, D.C., 135

  on Westbrook case, 71, 72, 73–74, 75

  on Wilson, 738

  New York Tribune, 621, 640, 706, 711, 734, 744

  on Nellie, 576

  on Russian-Japanese peace process, 432–33

  on Taft, 599, 637, 665

  on Taft’s Philippines tour, 431–32

  on TR, 511, 564, 712

  on TR’s vice-presidential nomination, 262, 263

  New York World, 70, 74, 76, 218, 229, 231, 292, 621, 673, 697

  on deaths of Alice and Mittie, 81–82

  on McClure’s, 325–26

  Taft’s interview with, 736–37

  on TR, 536, 641, 651

  on TR and Sunday closing laws, 211

  on TR’s anti-trust suits, 300

  on TR’s gubernatorial inauguration, 239–40

  Niagara Falls, 5, 160

  Nicolay, John, 177

  Nile River, 40, 353

  Norfolk, Va., 507

  Norris, Frank, 170, 225, 327–28, 459

  Norris, George, 628

  North Carolina, 309

  North Dakota, 729

  direct primary in, 684, 688, 696

  Northeast, coal shortage in, 311, 313

  Northern Securities Company, 218, 297–300, 313, 317–18, 321, 322, 386, 398–400, 669

  North Hampton, N.H., 93

  Northwest, 297

  Norton, Charles, 647–48

  Norway, 2

  Norwich, Conn., 114–15

  Notification Committee, 716

  Nourse, Edith, 88–89, 94, 103

  Oakland, Calif., 735

  Oberlin College, 180, 513

  Octopus, The (Norris), 327–28

  Odell, Benjamin, 242–43, 254

  Ohio, 138, 152, 154, 215, 263, 333, 398, 413, 426, 427, 432, 508, 519–20, 521, 545, 555, 561–62, 651, 653, 671, 712, 737

  direct primaries in, 687, 696

  1904 campaign in, 413

  progressives in, 673

  railroad safety law in, 217–18

  reformers vs. Old Guard in, 378–80

  Republican factions in, 434–36

  Steffens on, 381–83

  Ohio Constitutional Convention, 677

  Ohio River, 52, 101, 550–51

  Ohio Supreme Court, 102, 105–6

  oil, 31, 171–72, 201, 292, 312, 330, 336, 343, 592, 596, 606

  Kansas Oil War and, 436–38

  Oil Creek refiners, 337

  Oklahoma, 425, 511, 512, 524, 544, 567, 685, 712

  oil fields in, 436, 439

  Oklahoma City, Okla., 685

  O’Laughlin, John Callan, 676, 690

  Old Executive Office Building, 54, 224

  Olney, Richard, 192, 410–11

  Omaha, Nebr., 193, 301, 508

  Omaha Evening World-Herald, 380, 491

  O’Neil, William, 69

  O’Neill, Moira, 489

  open shops, 402

  Opera Festival, Cincinnati, 57–58

  Orchestra Hall, 601

  Oregon, 350, 517, 729

  direct primary in, 684

  Osawatomie, Kans., 643, 669–70

  Osborn, Chase, 673, 713

  Oshkosh, Wisc., 342

  Otis, Harrison Gray, 724

  Our Young Folks, 116

  Outcault, Miller, 53, 86

  Outlook, xi, 2, 288, 339, 371, 397–98, 491, 501, 621, 626

  TR at, 639, 642, 643, 650, 664, 669, 671, 700, 724

  Oxford University,
43

  Oyster Bay, N.Y., 10, 17, 37–38, 46, 64, 79–80, 110, 112, 120, 232, 240, 275, 281, 287, 306, 307, 308, 360, 361, 377, 381, 411, 420, 433, 502, 503, 505, 507, 549, 559, 570, 637, 649, 652, 654, 671, 677–78, 698, 738, 747

  see also Sagamore Hill; Tranquillity

  Pacific Ocean, 607

  Packingtown, 459–62

  Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 566

  Palestine, 40

  Palisades Park, 245

  Palmer House, 187

  Panama, 426, 498, 499, 508, 513, 514, 519, 521

  Panama Canal, 306, 396, 406, 427–28, 484, 652–53, 654

  Panama Canal Zone, 507

  Panama Commission, 427

  Pan-American Exposition, 278

  Panic of 1893, 169, 199

  Pardee, George, 609

  Paris, 114, 128, 198, 199, 329

  Tarbell in, 170, 173–76, 198, 225, 331

  Parker, Alton Brooks, 261–62

  on corporate campaign contributions, 418–20

  in election of 1904, 407–10, 413, 415–16, 421, 548

  Parker, Andrew D., 204, 211

  “Parker and Roosevelt on Labor” (Baker), 415–17

  Parker Brothers, 102

  Parkhurst, Charles H., 200, 206

  Parks, Sam, 362–64

  Parliament, British, 133

  Parliament, Canadian, 660

  Parnell, Charles Stewart, 100

  Parsons, Fanny Smith, 264

  Pasig River, 276

  Pasteur, Louis, 176

  patent medicine, 464–65

  Pattison, John, 436

  Paul, George, 139

  Payn, Lou, 255–56, 258, 266, 368

  Payne, Henry C., 484, 573, 596, 602

  Payne, Sereno, 432

  Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, 592, 597–99, 601–3, 629, 630, 658–59, 736

  Peabody, James, 402–5, 415

  Pearson’s, 326

  Peck, Hiram, 105, 108

  Pendleton Act of 1883, 78, 130

  Pennsylvania, 299, 333, 336, 349, 415, 494, 555, 665, 670, 706, 707

  coal strike in, 311–19, 321, 322, 354–59

  direct primaries in, 687, 689–90, 693

  oil fields of, 436

  Tarbell’s childhood in, 171

  Pennsylvania Railroad Station, 426

  Penrose, Boies, 415

  Periodical Publishers Association, 673–75

  Perkins, George, 294, 318, 667, 683, 708–9

  petroleum, 171

  Petroleum Producers Union, 337

  Phelan, Frank M., 215–17

  Phelps, Judge, 27

  Phi Beta Kappa, 23, 47

  Philadelphia, Pa., 17, 363, 447, 674, 692

  Republican National Convention in, 261–62, 292

  Steffens on corruption in, 369, 372, 373–74

  Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, 312

  Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 19

  Philadelphia North American, 663

  Philadelphia Press, 608

  Philadelphia Public Ledger, 169

  Philadelphia Record, 667

  Philippine Commission, 264, 266–67, 269–70, 273–74, 302, 429, 525

  Philippine Constabulary Band, 270–71

  Philippine Insurrection, 261, 268, 272, 273–74

 

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