On October 28, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt was born into one of the wealthiest and most well-established families in New York. His father, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., was a descendant of the original group ...

At college in the mid-1960s I minored in history. Ever since, as time permits, my reading often includes biographies and occasionally autobiographies. As I am a slow reader sometimes a lengthy book ...

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 ...