BIBLIOGRAPHY

Unpublished material: Papers, Memoirs, and Scrapbooks

ADA.

Adams, Henry. Papers in Massachusetts Historical Society, Cambridge.

AND.

Andrews, Avery. Citizen in Action: The Story of TR as Police Commissioner (typescript) in TRC.

AND.SCR.

Andrews, Avery. Scrapbooks of the New York City Police Department, 1895–97, 3 vols., in TRC.

BEA.

Beale, Howard K. Papers in Mudd Library, Princeton University.

FEN.

Fenwick, J. E., compiler. The White House Record of Social Functions, 13 vols., in National Archives, Washington, D.C.

FDR.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York.

GEO.

George, Henry. Mayoralty Campaign Scrapbooks, 4 vols., in New York Public Library.

HAG.BLN.

Hagedorn, Hermann. “Bad Lands Notes” (research for his Roosevelt in the Bad Lands in TRC.

HAY.BR.

Hay, John. Papers, Hay Library, Brown University.

LOD.

Lodge, Henry Cabot. Papers, including complete TR-Lodge correspondence, in Massachusetts Historical Society. Typed copies of the correspondence, prepared for publication by Lodge and Edith Roosevelt (see Lod. below), reveal occasional blue-penciled bursts of Rooseveltian invective, which I have chosen to restore.

LON.

Long, John D. Papers, including diaries, in Massachusetts Historical Society.

PRI.N

Pringle, Henry F. Notes for his TR: A Biography (see Pri., below).

TRB.

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, New York City. Unsorted but often valuable collection of Rooseveltiana, including the complete correspondence of TR with his sister Bamie, in photostats and typed copies. This collection was judiciously edited for publication in Letters from TR to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 1870–1918 (Scribner’s, 1925). Many important letters, such as that of 20 September 1886, describing TR’s qualms about remarrying, and a long series to do with the alcoholism and death of Elliott Roosevelt, never saw print. I have preferred to cite the copies, rather than the published versions. TRB also contains many files of interviews, clips, notes, and photographs collected by the indefatigable Hermann Hagedorn. All Roosevelt biographers are indebted to this gentleman, although his hero-worship of TR occasionally got the better of him. To take one small but significant example, the description of TR as an Assemblyman quoted by Isaac Hunt, “He’s a brilliant madman born a hundred years too soon” (see Chapter 9), is altered in Hagedorn’s stenographic record so that “madman” appears shorn of its offending first syllable.

TRC.

Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. By far the biggest Roosevelt archive, including most of his 150,000 letters (only 10% of which have been published) either in originals or copies. The voluminous papers of TR’s two sisters are also on deposit here, along with stacks of scrapbooks and photographs and an extensive book collection.

TRP.

Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (L.C.). Mainly incoming and outgoing official correspondence, skimpy for the earlier years covered by this volume, but waxing enormous after 1898.

The above three collections contain the following diaries:

TR.PRI.DI.

Theodore Roosevelt: Private Diaries, 1878–1885. The most revealing Roosevelt documents to survive. (TRP)

TR.LEG.DI.

Theodore Roosevelt: Diary of Five Months in the New York Legislature, 1882. (TRB photostat) Reprinted in Mor. (see below).

TR.1886.DI.

Theodore Roosevelt: Diary for 1886. Enigmatic and fragmentary. (TRC)

TR.WAR.DI.

Theodore Roosevelt. Diary of the Spanish-American War, 1898. Terse but fascinating. (TRC)

And the following scrapbooks:

TR.HAR.SCR.

Theodore Roosevelt. Harvard Scrapbook, 1879–80. Stripped of all relics of Alice Lee, but otherwise useful. (TRC)

TR.SCR.

Theodore Roosevelt. Scrapbooks, 1881–1898. Disorganized and crumbling, but rich in contemporary clips and reviews, which are by no means all flattering. (TRC)

TR.PRES.SCR.

Theodore Roosevelt. Presidential Scrapbooks, 1901–1909. A prodigious source, used only for the Prologue to this volume. (TRP)

Interviews and Reminiscences

COW.

Cowles, Anna Roosevelt. Four letter/memoirs to her son Sheffield Cowles, recalling her youth and TR’s childhood at 28 East Twentieth Street, plus random recollections of later years. (TRB and TRC)

FRE.

French, J. F., interviewer. A collection of verbal reminiscences, mainly political, recorded in the 1920s with TR’s old New York Republican Associates. (TRB)

HUN.

Hunt, Isaac, and Spinney, George. Verbal reminiscences, mainly of TR’s Assembly years, recorded during a dinner with Hermann Hagedorn at the Harvard Club, New York, on 20 Sept. 1923. Typed memorandum, including a supplementary Hunt statement, no date. (TRB)

Published Works

Ada.

Adams, Henry. Letters, 1892–1918, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford. Boston, 1938.

Alex.

Alexander, DeAlva S. A Political History of New York State. Vol. 4: “Four Famous New Yorkers.” New York, 1923.

Azo.

Azoy, A.C.M. Charge! The Story of the Battle of San Juan Hill. New York, 1961.

Bea.

Beale, Howard K. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power. Johns Hopkins Press, 1956.

Bee.

Beer, Thomas. Hanna, Crane, and the Mauve Decade. Knopf, 1941.

Ber.

Berman, Jay Stuart. Police Administration and Progressive Reform: Theodore Roosevelt as Police Commissioner of New York. Greenwood, 1987.

Bis.

Bishop, Joseph Bucklin. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time. Scribner’s, 1920.

Bur.

Burton, David H. Theodore Roosevelt, Confident Imperialist. Philadelphia, 1968. Excellent and illuminating.

But.

Butt, Archie. The Letters of Archie Butt, Personal Aide to President Roosevelt, ed. Lawrence F. Abbot. Doubleday, 1924. A classic.

Cha.

Chanler, Mrs. Winthrop. Roman Spring. Little, Brown, 1934.

Che.

Chessman, G. Wallace. Governor Theodore Roosevelt. Harvard U. Press, 1965.

Cly.

Clymer, Kenton J. John Hay: The Gentleman as Diplomat. U. of Michigan Press, 1975.

Cro.

Croly, Herbert. Marcus Alonzo Hanna: His Life and Works. Macmillan, 1912.

Cut.

Cutright, Paul Russell. Theodore Roosevelt the Naturalist. Harpers, 1956. A long overdue addition to the Roosevelt bibliography. Its final pages contain the most moving of all eulogies to TR.

Den.

Dennett, Tyler. John Hay: From Poetry to Politics. Dodd, Mead, 1933.

Dun.

Dunn, Arthur Wallace. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, 1888–1921. 2 vols. Putnam, 1922.

Gar.

Garraty, John A. Henry Cabot Lodge. Knopf, 1953.

Gos.

Gosnell, Harold F. Boss Platt and His New York Machine. U. Chicago Press, 1924.

Gou.

Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of William McKinley. Regents Press of Kansas, 1980. A policy-oriented study, importantly supplementing Leech (see below).

Gwy.

Gwynn, Stephen, ed. The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. 2 vols. Houghton Mifflin, 1929.

Hag.Boy.

Hagedorn, Hermann. The Boy’s Life of Theodore Roosevelt. Harpers, 1918. Written in cooperation with TR.

Hag.LW.

Hagedorn, Hermann. Leonard Wood: A Biography. 2 vols. Harpers, 1931.

Hag.RBL.

Hagedorn, Hermann. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands. Houghton Mifflin, 1921.

Hag.RF.

Hagedorn, Hermann. The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill. Macmillan, 1954.

Har.

Harbaugh, William H. Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1961.

Hay.

Hay, John. Letters and Extracts from his diaries, ed. Henry Adams and Mrs. Hay. 3 vols., privately printed, 1908, with initialed names penciled in by Worthington Chauncey Ford, in New York Public Library Rare Book Division.

Her.

Herrick, Walter R., Jr. The American Naval Revolution. Louisiana State U. Press, 1966.

Igl.

Iglehart, Ferdinand Cowle. Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew Him. New York, 1919.

Joh.

Johnson, Walter. William Allen White’s America. New York, 1947.

Jos.

Josephson, Matthew. The President Makers. New York, 1940. Best account of Henry Cabot Lodge’s lifelong career as TR’s mentor.

Lan.

Lang, Lincoln. Ranching with Roosevelt. Lippincott, 1926.

Las.

Lash, Joseph P. Eleanor and Franklin. Norton, 1971.

Lee.

Leech, Margaret. In the Days of McKinley. Harpers, 1959. An unsurpassed presidential biography.

Lod.

Lodge, Henry Cabot. Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1884–1918. Scribner’s, 1925.

Loo.

Looker, Earle. The White House Gang. New York, 1929. A hilarious classic.

Lor.

Lorant, Stefan. The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Doubleday, 1959.

Mc.C.

McCormick, Richard L. From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893–1910. Cornell U. Press, 1981. Essential background to TR’s police commissionership and governorship.

May.

May, Ernest. Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.

Mil.

Millis, Walter. The Martial Spirit. New York, 1931.

Morg.

Morgan, H. Wayne. McKinley and His America. Syracuse U. Press, 1963.

Mor.

Morison, Elting E. and Blum, John, eds. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt. 8 vols. Harvard U. Press, 1951–4. A work of formidable scholarship, indispensable to all students of TR.

Morr.

Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. Random House, 2001.

Morr.EKR

Morris, Sylvia Jukes. Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady. Modern Library edition, 2001.

Nev.

Nevins, Allan. Grover Cleveland. Dodd, Mead, 1932.

Par.

Parsons, Mrs. James Russell (Fanny Smith Dana, née Frances Theodora Smith). Perchance Some Day. Privately printed memoir, 1951. Copy in TRC.

Pla.

Platt, Thomas Collier. The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt. Edited (and, one suspects, largely written) by Louis J. Lang. New York, 1910. Should be used in conjunction with Gos., above.

Pra.

Pratt, Julius W. The Expansionists of 1898. Baltimore, 1935.

Pri.

Pringle, Henry F. Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1931. Highly prejudiced and selective, but still the best one-volume life of TR.

Put.

Putnam, Carleton. Theodore Roosevelt. Vol. 1: The Formative Years, 1858–1886. Scribner’s, 1958. A neglected masterpiece. See Acknowledgments, above.

Rho.

Rhodes, James Ford. The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 1897–1909. Macmillan, 1923.

Rii.

Riis, Jacob A. Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen. Johnson, Wynne Co., 1904.

Rob.

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt. My Brother Theodore Roosevelt. Scribner’s, 1921. Sentimental and inaccurate, but of prime importance nevertheless.

Sew.

Sewall, William Wingate. Bill Sewall’s Story of TR. New York, 1919.

Ste.

Steffens, Lincoln. Autobiography. Harcourt Brace, 1936.

Sto.

Stoddard, Henry L. As I Knew Them. Harpers, 1927.

Sul.

Sullivan, Mark. Our Times: The United States, 1900–1925. Vol. II: America Finding Herself. New York, 1927.

Tha.

Thayer, William Roscoe. The Life and Letters of John Hay. Houghton Mifflin, 1915.

TR.Auto

Theodore Roosevelt. An Autobiography. Macmillan, 1913. I have used the illustrated reprint of March 1914. For all its sins of omission, a fairly complete portrait of TR the man: alternately tender, preachy, humorous, boring, boastful, inspiring, cozy, and sad.

TR.DBY.

Theodore Roosevelt. Diaries of Boyhood and Youth. New York, 1924. Delightful.

TR.Wks.

Theodore Roosevelt. Works, ed. Hermann Hagedorn. National Edition, 20 vols. Scribner’s, 1926.

Twe.

Tweton, D. Jerome. The Marquis de Morès, Dakota Capitalist, French Nationalist. North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, Fargo, N.D., 1972.

Wag.

Wagenknecht, Edward. The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt. Longmans, Green & Co., 1958. Succeeds more than any other work in capturing the size and complexity of TR. Contains a magnificent bibliography.

Wes.

Westermeir, Clifford P. Who Rush to Glory: The Cowboy Volunteers of 1898. Caldwell, Idaho, 1958. Some interesting Western sources.

Whi.

White, William Allen. Autobiography. Macmillan, 1946.

Wis.

Wister, Owen. Roosevelt—The Story of a Friendship, 1880–1919. Macmillan, 1930.

Woo.

Wood, Fred S., ed. Roosevelt as We Knew Him: Personal Recollections of 150 Friends. John C. Winston Co., 1927.