One of the most hardcore presidents of our wonderful United States, Teddy Roosevelt could be said to have wrestled with life and won decisively. To start off, Teddy Roosevelt led a troop of cavalry named the Rough Riders. They went to the Battle of San Juan Hill in Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War and henceforth laid the smackdown. Then, Teddy got all up in the Republican Party. First he was governor of New York, which was boring. But then he got nominated and elected as Vice President of the United States! Luckily, whoever was President at the time soon died, and Teddy took the reigns. His party leaders were pretty worried, and rightly so, because Ted got straight up awesome. He busted up some big business trusts, like robber barons Rockefeller and Carnegie. He also got all up ons some federal regulation of the meat industry after reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

After being president for two terms, Roosevelt went on a rampage of Africa, where he did some hardcore safari hunting TR-style. But then in 1912 he realized that America was a T.S. Eliot-type "Waste Land" without his rocking leadership, so he got back into the Presidential side of things. The Republicans weren't cool enough to nominate him again, and nominated Taft instead, who was a large man that once got stuck in a White House bathtub. So then Roosevelt started the Bull Moose Party, named so because he once said, "I feel like a bull moose." Well, he definitely embodied the spirit of that bull moose. In fact, he kicked Taft's tush in electoral votes - 88 to 8. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to win. They both lost. Some guy named Woodrow Wilson (weird first name) won instead.

Oh yeah, one other thing. Stories say Teddy got the teddy bear named after him by not killing a baby bear. That has to be a lie. Teddy wasn't about to let one of those nasty varmints grow up to endanger the citizens of the U.S.

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