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 ...

Introduction -- Part I. The Museum Naturalist. Chapter 1. The Seal on Broadway ; Chapter 2. Collections Make Museums ; Chapter 3. The Mind but Not the Body ; Chapter 4. Full-Bore Birder ; Chapter 5.

Presidents come and go, but monuments are always with us. There’s a reason Theodore Roosevelt is the only 20th century President whose face is carved into Mount Rushmore, the only one who could hold ...

A NOTABLE item in the brief autumn list of the Atlantic Monthly Press will be a biographical study of Theodore Roosevelt by Lord Charnwood. When an English student of history, politics, and human ...

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, ...

Dickinson State University's digitization of the Theodore Roosevelt papers is making discoveries that are going to change the way we think about Theodore Roosevelt in North Dakota. The idea of ...

I’ve just finished reading Edmund Morris’ splendid biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. I can’t remember how I got interested in this book, but I came away from it greatly appreciative of ...

Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules. By Dennis Duncan ...

"Experiences had flashed by him in such number that he was obviously destined to travel a larger landscape of life than were his fellows," Edmund Morris writes near the beginning of Theodore Rex, the ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. President Theodore Roosevelt’s adventurous spirit brought him nearly everywhere, from San Juan to the Amazon. But if any one place can lay claim to ...