Theodore Roosevelt, a family-centered father of six, ended his workday at 4 PM and played with his children. Often a man of contradiction, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Medal of Honor. He was a diplomat, internationalist, naval historian and strategist, a combat commander of volunteer cavalry regiment, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. As a noted historian, biographer, essayist, editor, columnist, and critic, he wrote 36 books.

He was a renowned ornithologist, an expert on and hunter of big-game animals, but a also pioneering American conservationist. He was a country squire, horseman, socialite and patron of the arts. He reformed the federal civil service and New York City police department, lost a race for New York City mayor, finished second in a 1912 third party bid for president, arrested outlaws as a North Dakota deputy sheriff, served as Governor of New York and Vice-President of the United States.