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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For example, my recent reads have included a 2016 biography of my father’s favorite actor, Jimmy Stewart, and an autobiography of President Theodore Roosevelt. The President that we all know as Teddy ...

"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 ...

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.