THIS is a ‘personal' rather than an ‘intimate’ biography, and the reader learns almost as much of Mr. Thayer’s views on recent public questions as of Roosevelt’s creed and conduct. The earlier ...

In his personal journal, he famously wrote “the light has gone out of my life” after losing his wife and mother on the same ...

There are already plenty of good books about TR, you may say, and that stern senator best known for his opposition to Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge, requires no refurbishment, ...

Maybe it’s because we’re in an election year that I’ve had a renewed interest in those who have occupied the Oval Office. For a while I took a crack at Scott McClellan’s book, “What Happened,” on his ...

DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY (478 pp.)—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.—Double-day ($5.95). On June 20, 1910, in Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, a pretty, impressible girl of 21 named Eleanor Butler ...

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T. R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in ...

Dave Sims is the television voice of the Seattle Mariners. He has been so for a dozen years. Our friendship goes back to our days in New York when he was doing an NBC nightly sports talk show and I ...

On January 6, 1919, Theodore Roosevelt died suddenly in his sleep at the age of 60. Overlooked now is that fact that the former President was expected to run again for a third term the following year.

FARGO — Theodore Roosevelt made one of his most controversial remarks about American Indians while he was promoting a memoir of his exotic ranching and hunting experiences in the Badlands of Dakota ...

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