Biographies & Memoirs

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Only those sources that have multiple citations in the Notes are listed here. All others are cited where they relate to the text.

The most comprehensive bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt is the online catalogue of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, compiled by Wallace F. Dailey, curator of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University. It includes manuscripts and photographs, and expands on an earlier print version, Gregory C. Wilson, comp., Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Dictionary Catalogue and Shelflist, 5 vols., plus one-volume Supplement, Wallace F. Dailey, comp. (Cambridge, Mass., 1970, 1986).

BOOKS

Abbott, Lawrence F. Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt. New York, 1919.

Adams, Henry. The Letters of Henry Adams. J. C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee, Viola Hopkins Winner, eds. 6 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1988.

Amos, James E. Theodore Roosevelt: Hero to His Valet. New York, 1927.

Asquith, Margot. The Autobiography of Margot Asquith. Boston, 1963.

Bailey, Thomas A. A Diplomatic History of the American People. 8th ed. New York, 1969.

Baker, Ray Stannard. American Chronicle. New York, 1945.

Balfour, Michael. The Kaiser and His Time. New York, 1964, 1972.

[Begbie, Harold]. The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster. New York, 1921.

Bishop, Joseph Bucklin. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time: Shown in His Own Letters. 2 vols. New York, 1920.

Bourne, Kenneth, ed. British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, Part One, From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the First World War. Multiple vols. Frederick, Md., 1990.

Bull, Bartle. Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure. New York, 1988.

Butt, Archibald W. The Letters of Archie Butt: Personal Aide to President Roosevelt. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed. New York, 1924.*

———. Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide. 2 vols. New York, 1930.

Cherrie, George K. Dark Trails: Adventures of a Naturalist. New York, 1930.

Clemenceau, Georges. Discours de guerre. Paris, 1934, 1968.

Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. New York, 2009.

Cordery, Stacy A. Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. New York, 2007.

Cowley, Robert, ed. The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War. New York, 2004.

Davis, Oscar King. Released for Publication: Some Inside Political History of Theodore Roosevelt and His Times, 1898–1918. Boston, 1925.

Dugdale, Edgar T., ed. German Diplomatic Documents 1871–1914. Vol. 3. London, 1930.

Dunne, Finley Peter. Mr. Dooley Remembers: The Informal Memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne [1936]. Philip Dunne, ed. Boston, 1963.

Dyer, Thomas G. Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race. Baton Rouge, La., 1980.

Ecksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. Boston, 1989.

Gable, John Allen. The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party. Port Washington, N.Y., 1978.

Garland, Hamlin. Companions on the Trail: A Literary Chronicle. New York, 1931.

———. My Friendly Contemporaries: A Literary Log. New York, 1932.

———. Roadside Meetings. New York, 1930.

Gerard, James W. Face to Face with Kaiserism. New York, 1918.

———. My Four Years in Germany. New York, 1917.

[Gilbert, Clinton W.]. The Mirrors of Washington: With Fourteen Cartoons by Cesare. New York, 1922.

Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1, 1900–1933. Toronto, 1997.

Goetsch, Charles C. Essays on Simeon Baldwin. West Hartford, Conn., 1981.

Gould, Lewis L., ed. Bull Moose on the Stump: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt. Lawrence, Kan., 2008.

———, ed. Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics. Lawrence, Kan., 2008.

Grey, Edward, Viscount. Twenty-five Years: 1892–1916. Vol. 2. New York, 1925.

Hagedorn, Hermann. Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Biography. New York, 1938.

———. The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill. New York, 1954.

Harbaugh, William H. The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Rev. ed. New York, 1975.

Hechler, Kenneth W. Insurgency: Personalities and Politics of the Taft Era. New York, 1964.

Heckscher, August. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. New York, 1991.

House, Edward M. The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. 4 vols. Charles Seymour, ed. Cambridge, Mass., 1926.

Karp, Walter. The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic. New York, 1979.

La Follette, Belle and Fola. Robert M. La Follette. 2 vols. New York, 1953.

La Follette, Robert M. La Follette’s Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences. Madison, Wis., 1913.

Leary, John J., Jr. Talks with T.R.: From the Diaries of John J. Leary, Jr. Boston, 1920.

Lee, Dwight E., ed. The Outbreak of the First World War: Causes and Responsibilities. Lexington, Mass., 1970, 1975.

Lee of Fareham, Viscount. A Good Innings. Vol. 1. Privately printed, London, 1939.

———. “A Good Innings”: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.B.E. Alan Clark, ed. London, 1974.

Link, Arthur S., ed. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Princeton, N.J., 1966–1990.

———. Wilson: The Road to the White House. Princeton, N.J., 1947.

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt. Crowded Hours: Reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. New York, 1933.

Looker, Earle. Colonel Roosevelt, Private Citizen. New York, 1932.

Lorant, Stefan. The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Garden City, N.Y., 1959.

MacDonogh, Giles. The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II. New York, 2000.

McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920. New York, 2003.

Marks, Frederick J., III. Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt. Lincoln, Neb., 1979.

Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. New York, 2005.

Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. Washington, D.C., 2001.

Miller, Leo E. In the Wilds of South America. New York, 1918.

Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Rev. ed. New York, 1979, 2001.

———. Theodore Rex. New York, 2001.

Morris, Sylvia Jukes. Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady. New York, 1980.

Mowry, George E. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement. New York, 1946, 1960.

Naylor, Natalie, et al., eds. Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American. Interlaken, N.Y., 1992.

Nevins, Allan. Henry White: Thirty Years of American Diplomacy. New York, 1930.

New York (State) Supreme Court. William Barnes, Plaintiff-Appellant, Against Theodore Roosevelt, Defendant-Respondent. Walton, N.Y., 1917.

O’Laughlin, John C. From the Jungle Through Europe with Roosevelt. Boston, 1910.

O’Toole, Patricia. When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House. New York, 2005.

Papen, Franz von. Memoirs. Brian Connell, trans. London, 1952.

Parsons, Frances Theodora. Perchance Some Day. Privately printed memoir, 1951 (copy in TRC).

Pringle, Henry F. The Life and Times of William Howard Taft. 2 vols. New York, 1939.

———. Theodore Roosevelt, A Biography. New York, 1931.

Putnam, Carleton. Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years, 1858–1886. New York, 1958.

Remey, Oliver, et al. The Attempted Assassination of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. Milwaukee, Wis., 1912.

Republican National Committee. Official Report of the Proceedings of the National Republican Convention, 1912. The Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/.

Robinson, Corinne R. My Brother Theodore Roosevelt. New York, 1921.

Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Collected Poems. New York, 1922.

———. The Town Down the River. New York, 1910.

Rondon, Cândido M. Lectures Delivered by Colonel Cândido Mariana da Silva Rondon … On the 5th, 7th and 9th of October 1915 at the Phenix Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition. R. G. Reidy and Ed. Murray, trans. Rio de Janeiro, 1916; New York, 1969.

Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler. Day Before Yesterday: The Reminiscences of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Garden City, N.Y., 1959.

Roosevelt, Emlen, ed. Roosevelt vs. Newett: A Transcript of the Testimony Taken and Depositions Read at Marquette, Michigan (May 26–31, 1913). Privately printed, 1913.

Roosevelt, Kermit. The Happy Hunting-Grounds. New York, 1920.

———. The Long Trail. New York, 1921.

———, ed. Quentin Roosevelt: A Sketch with Letters. New York, 1921.

Roosevelt, Theodore. African and European Addresses. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed. New York, 1910.

———. An Autobiography. New York, 1913; Library of America, 2004.

———. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt. 8 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1951–54.

———. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Memorial Edition. 24 vols. New York, 1923–1926.*

Rosewater, Victor. Back Stage in 1912: The Inside Story of the Split Republican Convention. Philadelphia, 1932.

Slayden, Ellen Maury. Washington Wife: Journal of Ellen Maury Slayden from 1897–1919. New York, 1963.

Stoddard Henry L. As I Knew Them: Presidents and Politics from Grant to Coolidge. New York, 1927.

Strachan, Hew. The First World War. New York, 2004.

Straus, Oscar. Under Four Administrations. Boston, 1922.

Street, Julian. The Most Interesting American. New York, 1915.

Stürmer, Michael. The German Empire, 1870–1918. New York, 2000.

Sullivan, Mark. Our Times: The United States, 1900–1925. Vols. 3–5. New York, 1930.

Teague, Michael. Mrs. L: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth. London, 1981.

Thayer, William Roscoe. Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography. Boston, 1919.

Thompson, Charles Willis. Presidents I’ve Known and Two Near Presidents. Indianapolis, 1929.

Tuchman, Barbara W. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890–1914. New York, 1966.

Turner, Frederick J. Dear Lady: The Letters of Frederick J. Turner and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper, 1910–1932. San Marino, Calif., 1970.

Vivieros, Esther de. Rondon conta sua vida. Rio de Janeiro, 1958.

Wagenknecht, Edward. The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt. New York, 1958; Guilford, Conn., 2008.

Wall, Joseph Frazier. Andrew Carnegie. Pittsburgh, Pa., 1970, 1989.

Wallace, David H. Sagamore Hill National Historic Site: Historic Furnishings Report. Vol. 1, Historical Data. Harpers Ferry, Va., 1989.

Washburn, Charles G. Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career. Boston, 1916.

Wharton, Edith. A Backward Glance. New York, 1933, 1985.

White, William Allen. The Autobiography of William Allen White. New York, 1946.

———. Masks in a Pageant. New York, 1928.

Wister, Owen. The Pentecost of Calamity. New York, 1917.

———. Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880–1919. New York, 1930.

Wood, Frederick S., ed. Roosevelt As We Knew Him: The Personal Recollections of One Hundred and Fifty of His Friends and Associates. Philadelphia, 1927.

Zahm, John Augustine. Through South America’s Southland: With an Account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America. New York, 1916.

ARTICLES

Alves de Lima, José C. “Reminiscences of Roosevelt in Brazil,” Brazilian American, Feb. 1927.

Babir, Karl. “Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, the Middle East, and the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies, 2.1 (Spring 2004).

Blakey, George T. “Calling a Boss a Boss: Did Roosevelt Libel Barnes in 1915?” New York History, 60.2 (Apr. 1979).

Burton, David H. “Theodore Roosevelt and His English Correspondents: A Special Relationship of Friends.” Transactions of the America Philosophical Society, n.s., 63, pt. 2, 1973.

Enders, Armelle. “Theodore Roosevelt explorateur: Positivisme et mythe de la frontière dans l’expediçào cíentífica Roosevelt-Rondon au Mato Grosso et en Amazonie.” Nuevo Mundo Mundo Nuevos, 2 Feb. 2005, http://nuevomundo.revues.org/.

German, James C., Jr. “Roosevelt, Taft, and United States Steel.” The Historian, 34.4 (1972).

Greene, John Robert. “Theodore Roosevelt and the Barnes Libel Case: A Reappraisal.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 19.1 (Winter 1989).

Holli, Melvin, and C. David Tompkins. “Roosevelt vs. Newett: The Politics of Libel.” Michigan History, 47.4 (Dec. 1963).

Holmes, James R. “Theodore Roosevelt and Elihu Root: International Lawmen.” World Affairs, 169.4 (Spring 2007).

Levien, Sonya. “The Great Friend: A Personal Story of Theodore Roosevelt as He Revealed Himself to One of His Associates in Magazine Work.” Woman’s Home Companion, Oct. 1919.

Margulies, Herbert F. “La Follette, Roosevelt and the Republican Presidential Nomination of 1912.” Mid-America, 58.1 (1976).

Masheck, Joseph. “Teddy’s Taste: Theodore Roosevelt and the Armory Show.” Art Forum, 9.2 (1970).

Murakata, Akiko. “Theodore Roosevelt and William Sturgis Bigelow: The Story of a Friendship.” Harvard Library Bulletin, 23.1 (1975).

Murphy, Gary. “Mr. Roosevelt Is Guilty: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for Constitutionalism, 1910–1912.” Journal of American Studies, 36.3 (Dec. 2002).

Osborn, Henry Fairfield. “Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist.” Natural History, 19.1 (Jan. 1919).

Pavord, Andrew C. “The Gamble for Power: Theodore Roosevelt’s Decision to Run for the Presidency in 1912.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 26.3 (Summer 1996).

Potts, E. Daniel. “Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party, 1912–1916: A Reinterpretation.” Pacific Circle: Proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. St. Lucia, Queensland, 1968.

Rice, Gary. “Trailing a Celebrity: Press Coverage of Theodore Roosevelt’s African Safari, 1909–1910.” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 21.3 (Fall 1996).

Sá, Dominichi M. de, et al. “Telegraphs and an Inventory of the Territory of Brazil: The Scientific Work of the Rondon Commission (1907–1915).” História, Ciêncas, Saúde-Manguinhos, 15.3 (July–Sept., 2008), http://www.scielo.br/.

Sherman, Stuart P. “Roosevelt and the National Psychology,” The Nation, 109.2836 (8 Nov. 1919).

Stagner, Stephen. “The Recall of Judicial Decisions and the Due Process Debate.” American Journal of Legal History, 24.3 (July 1980).

UNPUBLISHED WORKS AND INTERVIEWS

Cherrie, George K. Diary of the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition, 1913–1914 (AMNH).

Dawson, F. Warrington. “Opportunity and Theodore Roosevelt.” Pre-publication ts., 1924 (KRP).

Gable, John Allen. “The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party, 1912–1916.” Ph.D. diss. Kenyon College, 1965.

Hagedorn, Hermann. “Some Notes on Colonel Roosevelt from Henry L. Stimson.” Ts., 12 Dec. 1923 (TRB).

O’Laughlin, John Callan. Diary of the Republican National Convention, June 1912 (OL).

Pratt, Walter Merriam. “Theodore Roosevelt: His Cabinet, Family, Funeral Notices.” Bound scrapbook (TRB).

Roosevelt, Nicholas. “Account of the Republican National Convention at Chicago, June 12, 1912.” Bound volume (TRC).

Roosevelt, Philip J. “Politics of the Year 1912: An Intimate Progressive View.” Ts. (TRC).

Roosevelt, Theodore. Diary, 1909 (TRC).

———. Diary, 1910 (TRB).

Roosevelt Memorial Association. “The Story of the Roosevelt Medals.” Ts., ca. 1940 (TRB).

Wertheim, Stephen A. “The League That Wasn’t: Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft and a Legalist League of Nations.” AB diss. Harvard, 2007.

WEBSITES

GHDI: German History in Documents and Images, http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/.

The Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/.

Measuring Worth, http://www.measuringworth.com/.

* Quotations from this book have been checked against transcripts of Butt’s original letters, preserved in the Marble Library of Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

* There is an alternative collection, The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, National Edition, 20 vols. (New York, 1926). It is almost identical in content with the Memorial Edition but is arranged differently. For a brief survey of the Memorial Edition, see Wagenknecht, The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt, 345.

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