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42 “The man was” William Allen White, Masks in a Pageant (New York, 1928), 326. The luxury Memorial Edition of TR’s Works was limited to 1,500 copies, 500 “for presentation” and 1,000 for sale. Hagedorn also published, in 1926, a cheaper National Edition, differently distributed among 20 volumes. For a summary of the contents of the Memorial Edition, see Wagenknecht, The Seven Worlds of TR, 345.
Personal Note: The author of this biography hereby expresses gratitude to the memory of John Gray Peatman, who in 1980 offered him a set of the Memorial Edition, “at the same price I paid for it in 1924—ten dollars a volume.”
43 Four female trumpeters John R. Lancos, “Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace: Study in Americanism,” in Naylor et al., TR, 26ff.; Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 18. “Roosevelt House” is now Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site.
44 In 1925, Hagedorn Nan Netherton, “Delicate Beauty and Burly Majesty: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt Island,” National Park Service draft ts., 1980, 76–77. Copy in AC. Pope’s column of spray was intended to evoke TR’s geyser-like energy. Roosevelt Memorial Association, Plan and Design for the Roosevelt Memorial in the City of Washington (New York, 1925).
45 “fifth cousin by blood” See 416.
46 “greatest man I ever knew” James L. Golden, “FDR’s Use of the Symbol of TR in the Formation of His Political Persona and Philosophy,” in Naylor et al., TR, 577.
47 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. The principal source for the following paragraphs is Charles W. Snyder, “An American Original: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.” in Naylor et al., TR, 95–106. The most comprehensive family history of the Roosevelts after TR’s death is Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 441–516.
48 Cousin Eleanor made things Eleanor Roosevelt’s campaign behavior sparked decades of hatred between the Oyster Bay (Republican) and Hyde Park (Democratic) branches of the Roosevelt family.
49 It was a question TR.Jr. could never bring himself to acknowledge that TR, reelected in 1912, would have been as centralized an authoritarian as FDR.
50 “one of the bravest” Patton quoted in Naylor et al., TR, 103. After World War II, a sentimental desire for juxtaposition led the Roosevelt family to override TR’s and EKR’s wishes (see 546) and transfer QR’s remains to the same cemetery. The bones of the two brothers now lie side by side.
51 nothing left to stand on See 554.
52 War in the Garden of Eden New York, 1919.
53 His nomadic nature Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 492–507.
54 Archie went to work See David M. Esposito, “Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, 1894–1979,” in Naylor et al., TR, 107ff.
55 a selection of Archibald Roosevelt, ed., Theodore Roosevelt on Race, Riots, Reds, Crime (Metairie, La., 1968).
56 “Beatniks” Esposito in Naylor et al., TR, 115.
57 “I’m going to” Quoted by Archibald Roosevelt, Jr., interview with author, 3 Oct. 1981.
58 bellow the word “Americanism” Author’s personal recollection.
59 Flora Whitney died Biddle, The Whitney Women, 45–68 and passim. Gertude Vanderbilt Whitney’s statue of Flora is reproduced in Flora, 17.
60 “Hell, yes” Cordery, Alice, 314. For full details of this episode in ARL’s life, see ibid., chap. 15.
61 lifelong passion for reading See New York Society Library, The President’s Wife and the Librarian: Letters at an Exhibition (New York, 2009).
62 Perhaps the earliest Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 1–2; Stefan Lorant, “The Boy in the Window,” American Heritage, 6.4 (June 1955).
63 filled a lacuna For other lacunae in TR, Works, see Wagenknecht, The Seven Worlds of TR, 345.
64 Theodore Roosevelt Collection This archive, which the RMA began to amass in New York immediately after TR’s death, temporarily transformed his birthplace into the nation’s first presidential library. Removed to Harvard University’s Widener and Houghton libraries and endowed with a curator in 1953, it now (2010) totals 56,000 manuscript, print, and visual items.
65 Whatever the Colonel’s Harbaugh, TR (1961), 521–22.
66 On 22 November 1963 John Robert