The lives and friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge spanned the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Few other politicians had such a monumental impact on the time, and Dr. Laurence Jurdem joins the show to explain of their friendship came to define the period.

Essential Reading:

Laurence Jurdem, The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History (2023).

Recommended Reading:

John A. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography (1965).

William Harbaugh, Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (1961).

Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1884-1918 (1925).

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