A Rough Ride to AlbanyJust as essential to Theodore Roosevelts accession to the Presidency as his charge up San Juan Hill was his election as Governor of New York four months later. A defeat would have seriously set back and perhaps even destroyed his chances to gain the White House. Yet, until A Rough Ride to Albany, no book has devoted itself primarily to that hard fought uphill campaign, which he barely won only after a series of energetic whistle stop tours, and in