The Rough Rider and the Professor with Laurence Jurdem

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Sharon is joined by author and professor Laurence Jurdem to discuss his book, The Rough Rider and the Professor, about the unusual thirty-five-year political friendship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. While Roosevelt famously “rose like a rocket,” in the political spotlight with his larger-than-life personality, it was arguably his machiavellian friend Cabot who lit the fuse, and used his vast social network to boost Roosevelt. In his research, Laurence Jurdem immersed himself in 2,500 letters of archives from the Massachusetts Historical Society to write the story of this unique Presidential friendship, and to remind us that close, meaningful friendships do not always have to perfectly align politically. We can disagree without being disagreeable.

Special thanks to our guest, Laurence Jurdem, for joining us today.

Host/Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Guest: Laurence Jurdem

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome, so delighted that you're with me today.
0:08.2	My guest is Florence Jardim, who has a new book out about an unusual political friendship
0:14.9	that I think you're really going to love hearing more about.
0:17.3	It's between Teddy Roosevelt and one of his best friends who was politically very different
0:25.1	than him, Henry Cabot Lodge.
0:27.3	So let's dive in.
0:30.4	I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.
0:36.2	I am very excited to be joined today by Florence Jardim.
0:40.6	I really enjoyed your new book, and it just really gave me a very, very different peak
0:49.2	into a period of history that I am very interested in.
0:53.1	The progressive era is a very, very interesting time period for my little brain, and I'm
0:59.6	sure that it is for you too, which is why you wrote a book called The Rough Rider and
1:04.5	The Professor.
1:05.5	Thanks for being here today.
1:06.5	Sharon, thank you so very much.
1:07.9	It's an honor to be with you, and I love your eclectic group of guests that you have,
1:11.9	many of whom I've listened to in the past and admire.
1:15.0	Okay, let's start with some basics here.
1:19.4	First of all, The Rough Rider and The Professor.
1:22.7	Who are we even talking about?
1:25.0	What we're talking about, theater Roosevelt, who was president of the United States from
1:29.4	1901 to 1909, a native New Yorker, one of the most dynamic people in American history,
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