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.

This week marks the publication of my latest presidential biography. It was an exhilarating experience for me to live for a ...

Katherine Dalton subtitles her perceptive and entertaining new biography of Theodore Roosevelt "a strenuous life" because, more than any other president, he embodied the virtues of energy, vitality ...

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 ...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT—Henry F. Prlngle—Farrar & Rineharf (2 vols. $7.50). Noting resemblances between the first and the second Roosevelt has been the pastime of many a pundit.

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 ...