The decades following the Civil War were a time of rapid improvement in the lives of Black Americans recently freed from slavery. But at the end of the nineteenth century, with the passage of Jim Crow laws and with lynchings on the rise, the years of racial progress that had followed the Emancipation Proclamation and the Fourteenth Amendment were eroding. By 1901, Black Americans were facing new forms of region-wide segregation and institutional oppression that not only compromised the promise of freedom for all but gravely jeopardized the stability of the nation itself. In Teddy and Booker T., New York Times bestselling author Brian Kilmeade tells the remarkable story of how two American heroes rose to meet this crisis. Their alliance was unlikely-one, the son of an enslaved woman, raised without a father or a last name; the other, a sickly boy from a privileged family, whose childhood illnesses nearly destroyed his future prospects. One became an educator and orator while the other became a military man and politician. And yet, despite their wildly different lives, the paths of these two giants converged at a crucial moment in American history. With vivid storytelling and gripping pacing, Kilmeade brings you with Roosevelt to the charge up San Juan Hill and with Washington to the founding of Tuskegee against all odds. He takes you inside the White House, where Roosevelt shocked the nation by having Washington join his family for dinner. He reveals how the two men worked together to appoint Black Americans to positions of power, and recounts how the two men won-and sometimes lost-in the war against injustice. As he did in his bestselling The President and the Freedom Fighter, Kilmeade has once again brought to life a nearly forgotten slice of American history. You wont want to miss this fascinating account of the two giants who, through their principles, courage, and commitment to hard work and diplomacy, fought the good fight to help America live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all.