Episode 3: The Rough Rider

08/10/23 • 33 min

As war breaks out with Spain, Roosevelt heads to Cuba with his cavalry, a newly-minted band called the Rough Riders. He returns a hero – and a celebrity – and runs for Governor of New York.

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As war breaks out with Spain, Roosevelt heads to Cuba with his cavalry, a newly-minted band called the Rough Riders. He returns a hero – and a celebrity – and runs for Governor of New York.

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Episode 2: The Strenuous Life

After his wife and mother both die on a single day, Teddy Roosevelt thinks his life is over. He escapes to the Dakota Badlands and the hardscrabble ranching life of the frontier. But the lure of politics brings him back to New York, where he’s determined to root out corruption as the new Commissioner of the Police Department.

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Episode 4: The People’s President

At 42, Roosevelt becomes the youngest US president in history. Breaking with the interests of his own class, he takes on the “robber barons" of the railroad, coal and oil industries to establish and protect workers’ rights.

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