Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech popularly known as “The Man in the Arena” at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910.1
At the time, he had been out of office for thirteen months and had grown frustrated with the administration of his friend and hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. {He would mount a third-party candidacy for the presidency in…
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