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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.
NOTES
References to such general sources as Mor. and TR.Auto are made throughout the Notes. In addition, most chapters refer to sources relevant only to themselves, for example childhood diaries in Ch. 1 and naval studies in Ch. 22. Important sources are cited in full at the beginning of each Note, and are short-listed thereafter. Except where otherwise indicated, all citations of TR’s collected letters (Mor.) refer to vols. 1 and 2, which are consecutively page-numbered. Other sources are cited in full passim; they, too, are then short-listed. Customary abbreviations like N.Y.T. for The New York Times are used wherever possible. The following initials identify persons frequently mentioned in the text: TR Sr. and MBR for Theodore’s parents; B, E, and C for Bamie, Elliott, and Corinne; EKR for Edith Kermit (Carow) Roosevelt; HCL for Henry Cabot Lodge; CSR for Cecil Spring-Rice; BH, GC, and McK for Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, and McKinley; TCP for Thomas Collier Platt, JDL for John D. Long, and MH for Mark Hanna. The abbreviation “pors.” refers to photographs and portraits.
PROLOGUE
Important sources not in Bibliography: Interviews with members of the Roosevelt family. Mrs. Alice Longworth, Nov. 9, 1954, June 2, 1956 (TRB mss.), and in July 1976 with author; Mrs. Ethel Derby, April 1976, with author; Mr. Archibald Roosevelt, Feb. 6, 1976, with author.
Because of the impressionistic nature of this prologue, there are occasional citations from sources dating later than January 1, 1907—but never unless the material quoted is chronologically authentic. For example, William Bayard Hale’s A Week in the White House was published in 1908, but Hale, as a New York Times reporter, had been writing similar descriptions of TR since at least