American Ideals/Administration--Civil Service This volume of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt in Fourteen Volumes contains two topics: American Ideals with a biographical sketch by Gen. Francis Vinton Greene, and Administration--Civil Service. The section on American Ideals includes the following subjects: practical politics; The College Graduate and Public Life; state legislation; Machine Politics in New York City; and The Vice-Presidency and the Campaign of 1896. The section on Administration--Civil Service includes Civil Service; New York police force; The Monroe Doctrine; and Social Evolution.