Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... A FOREWORD "some as good citizens as I know are or were prize-fighters. Take Mike Donovan of New York. He and his family represent a type of American citizenship of which we have a right to be proud. Mike is a devoted temperance man and can be relied upon for every movement in the interest of good citizenship. I was first intimately thrown with him when I was Police Commissioner. One evening he and I--both in dress suits--attended a temperance meeting of Catholic Societies. It culminated in a lively set-to between myself and a Tammany Senator who was a very good fellow, but whose ideas of temperance differed radically from mine and as the event proved, from those of the majority of the meeting. Mike evidently regarded himself as my backer--he was sitting on the platform beside me --and I think felt as pleased and interested as if the set-to had been physical instead of merely verbal. "Afterwards I grew to know him well both while I was Governor and while I was President and many a time he came on and boxed with me." From the Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt. ****** INTRODUCTION Good old Mike is gone. In the twilight of life he has passed on. Seventy years young was Mike. None thought of him as old. He was young and, in vigor of manhood, he vied with the youngest of us win loved him. His heart was as fresh and simple as a child's. He came into this world under the most humble, plain, yes, rough conditions, and he rose to be the honored friend of the cultured and refined. Mike was a patrician by birth. Through his veins ran the blood of Ireland's chieftains. He seldom mentioned that his descent could be traced throughout many centuries. Before he was eight years of age his beloved mother died. From then on to the time of his marriage...
