Maybe it’s because we’re in an election year that I’ve had a renewed interest in those who have occupied the Oval Office. For a while I took a crack at Scott McClellan’s book, “What Happened,” on his ...

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 ...

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 ...