The renowned United States newspaper editor, William Allen White (1868–1944), writing at the close of the 19th century, declared: “There is no man in America today whose personality is rooted deeper in the hearts of the people than Theodore Roosevelt.… He is more than a Presidential possibility.… He is the coming American of the twentieth century.” (Quoted in Edmund Morris’s Pulitzer Prize-winning study, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt , p.740). Th…