INTERVIEW WITH
PROFESSOR KRISTOFER ALLERFELDT
Kristofer teaches US History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941. His next book The Klan: An American History is due for release in 2023.
Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt’s life reads like a road map for the Great American Dream. From privileged childhood to cattle rancher in Dakota to governor of New York, then from vice president to president, he was catapulted into the presidency by the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. But he was no second-class substitute, winning another term in his own right in 1904. Battling corruption in big business and politics, he was not afraid of a fight. His belief in himself and what he stood for left him disappointed with the presidency of William Taft and in 1912 he set his sights on
