Volume 1. Ancestry, childhood and youth -- Legislature -- first term -- Legislature -- second term -- Legislature -- third term -- First appearance in national politics. Mr Blaine's candidacy -- Literary labors -- tilt with Jefferson Davis -- candidate for mayor -- Civil service commissioner -- Police commissioner -- Assistant secretary of the navy -- The war with Spain -- Governor of New York: first year -- Governor of New York -- second year -- Nominated and elected vice president -- President: early declarations of policy -- The Booker Washington incident -- Controversies with General Miles -- The Northern Securities suit -- Incidents of a busy year -- Coal strike settlement -- The Kaiser and Venezuela -- Popular approval: views on various subjects -- For President in 1904 -- futile opposition -- his own attitude -- Notable sentiments in speeches and letters -- Alaska Boundary -- wide range of reading -- Securing the Panama Canal -- Securing the Panama Canal -- concluded -- National convention and campaign of 1904 -- Attitude toward campaign contributions: Judge Parker's charges -- Visit of John Morley at the White House -- Illuminating letters on various subjects, including questions of policy -- Inaugerated president: death of John Hay -- Russo-Japanese peace conference -- Russo-Japanese peace conference -- concluded -- Messages to congress -- Paul Morton Case -- Senate on Santo Domingo and arbitration treaties -- Rebukes to riotous strikers and lynchers -- dealings with Senators -- letters on various subjects -- Builder of the Panama Canal -- Secret history of the Algreciras Convention -- Secret history of the Algreciras Convention -- concluded.

Volume 2. Railway rate law -- man with a muckrake -- views on many subjects -- Hague Conference -- estimate of Jefferson -- intervention in Cuba -- Brownsville incident -- The panic of 1907 -- Incident of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company -- World voyage on the Navy -- Letters on many subjects -- Gen. Lee -- visiting royalties -- Jefferson -- "In God we trust" -- Persistent refusal of a third term -- Third term stampede prevented -- The Taft campaign -- Letters on decadence; wealth; birds; humor in politics; Cleveland; libel suit; the Navy -- Preparation for African trip -- reflections after Taft's election -- Roosevelt and Trevelyan -- Roosevelt and Trevelyan -- concluded -- From Khartoum to London -- From Khartoum to London -- continued -- From Khartoum to London -- concluded -- Roosevelt and royalties -- Roosevelt and royalties -- concluded -- Great welcome in New York -- attitude toward Taft -- "New nationalism" -- candidacy against Taft -- The "steam roller" convention of 1912 -- The progressive convention and campaign -- shooting of Roosevelt -- Reflections on the future of the Progressive Party and his own leadership -- The Barnes trial -- Early attitude toward the European War -- other topics -- Strong condemnation of President Wilson -- Refusal to be a presidential candidate in 1916 -- Renewed opposition to Wilson's Peace Policy -- Roosevelt war division -- appeal from Clemenceau -- Message to soldiers leaving for France -- faith in Gen. Leonard Wood -- rebuke to Gompers -- Serious illness in hospital -- views on future of himself and the Republican Party -- Death of Quentin Roosevelt -- refusal to be a candidate for Governor of New York -- Undiminished activities of his closing years.