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Secondhand Memories: Murray T. Quigg
The Hagedorns interviewed Murray Quigg in an effort to learn more about his father Lemuel Quigg, a New York Republican and leading political...
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The Last Rough Rider: Jesse Langdon
The Rough Riders captured the imagination of the American public during the Spanish-American War. It revived Theodore Roosevelt’s political career...
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Introduction
In the 1950s, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association began an oral history project that interviewed family, friends, and contemporaries of the...
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The Worst Friend of the Worst Boy: Barclay H. Farr
The Hagedorns interviewed several neighbors of the Roosevelts. The Farrs lived in New Jersey, nearby the Robinsons who had children of the same age....
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That Tammany Boy: Henry Root Stern, Sr.
When Henry Root Stern met Theodore Roosevelt, he was introduced as that Tammany boy—a Democrat associated with the corrupt political machine. Despite...
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First Lady of the World: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Other than Theodore and Franklin, no other Roosevelt had as great an impact on world history as Eleanor. In her short, but informative interview with...
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The Next Generation: William and Margaret Cowles and Corinne Alsop Cole
Theodore Roosevelt’s sister Anna would have been president, several family members insist, had women been allowed to run. Her son William Sheffield...
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The Other Washington Monument: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Roosevelt Longworth had many titles. Celebrity, fashion icon, socialite, and political organizer. The eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and...
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Talking About Mental Health and the Politics of Madness
The questions framing this chapter offer a way inside the value of a focus on the politics of madness in the twentieth and twenty first centuries....
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Roosevelt’s Enduring Legacy: Frederick Trubee Davison
In a brief interview with the Hagedorns, Frederick Trubee Davison tells of the lasting legacy Theodore Roosevelt left for those fighting the Axis...
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The Political Backroom: William M. Chadbourne
A corporate lawyer committed to good government and social welfare, Chadbourne led Fiorello LaGuardia’s campaign for mayor of New York City in 1933,...
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Type 5: Consensual On-Duty Sex
Consensual sexconsensual sex on-duty, thee most numerous type of PSM, has a long, sordid history in the policework occupationOccupation . Since...
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Asylum Archives and Cases as Stories
This chapter takes up the question of the patient case record and its uses by historians. It opens a window into the world of ‘closed’ psychiatric...
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Type 6: Custodial Sexual Misconduct
Custodial and detention workers classified as Law enforcement officers work in detention facilities at all levels of government. Municipal police...
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The Account of a College Man: Karl H. Behr
Among his many credits, Karl Behr can count tennis champion, banking magnate, and Titanic survivor. None of these relate to Theodore Roosevelt, yet...
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Type 2: Violent Rapists and Sexual Predators
The police sexual aggressors in this type share the same characteristics. They target male and female victims and lack the self-control to curb their...
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Type 8: Child Molestation
The sample of on-duty police child molesters presented is not all that was found in the research for this book. They represent Illustrative Examples...
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh Joins the Court
What the Supreme Court does is largely a product of its membership. For that reason, new appointments to the Court are the subject of widespread...
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Type 4: Betrayal of Trust
The police are by theory in our communities to serve and protect. That is often not true if you live in America’s urban chaos cities or when the...
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A Machine Flown By People
It was around nine o’clock on the fine Saturday morning of 17 June 1989 when the clamor of a vintage AT-6D Texan aircraft first caught the attention...