Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt

Full biographies

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Personality and activities

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• Provides a lesson plan on TR as the historical figure who most exemplifies the quality of masculinity.
• . Chronicles the events of TR's presidency during the summers of his two terms.
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
• . The president's use of publicity, rhetoric and force of personality.
• ; his deadly 1913–14 trip to the Amazon.
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• Mexal, Stephen J. The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West
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• , examines TR and his family during the World War I period.
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• , 240 pp. TR in Africa & Europe, 1909–10
• 208 pp. A look at TR's formative years.
• Wagenknecht, Edward. The seven worlds of Theodore Roosevelt The seven worlds are those of action, thought, human relations, family, spiritual values, public affairs, and war and peace.
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• Wetzel, Benjamin J. Theodore Roosevelt: Preaching from the Bully Pulpit., a spiritual biography
• , 337 pp; TR's political thought and its significance for republican self-government.

Domestic policies

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• Cutright, Paul Russell. Theodore Roosvelt the naturalist
• Cutright, Paul Russell. Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist
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• , standard history of his domestic and foreign policy as president.
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• Redekop, Benjamin.. "Embodying the Story: The Conservation Leadership of Theodore Roosevelt". Leadership DOI:10.1177/1742715014546875
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• Tyrrell, Ian, Crisis of the Wasteful Nation : Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America. eBook.
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Politics

• . How TR did politics.
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• Cowan, Geoffrey. Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary.
• Gable, John A. The Bull Moose Years 300pp on Roosevelt.
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• . Attacks TR policies from conservative/libertarian perspective.

Foreign policy, military and naval issues

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• Burton, D. H. "Theodore Roosevelt and the Special Relationship with Britain" History Today, Vol. 23 Issue 8, pp 527–535 online.
• Coletta, Paolo E. "The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft." In American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review, edited by Gerald K. Haines and Samuel J. Walker, 91-114..
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• Hodge, Carl Cavenaugh. “A Whiff of Cordite: Theodore Roosevelt and the Transoceanic Naval Arms Race, 1897-1909.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 19#4 : 712–31.
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• Karsten, Peter. “The Nature of ‘Influence’: Roosevelt, Mahan, and the Concept of Sea Power.” American Quarterly 23#4 : 585–600.
• Kuehn, John T. "Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century," Naval War College Review 53#3
• Livermore, Seward W. "Theodore Roosevelt, the American Navy, and the Venezuelan Crisis of 1902–1903." American Historical Review 51.3 : 452–471.
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• Nester, William R. Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power: An American for All Time.
• Neu, Charles E. "Theodore Roosevelt and American Involvement in the Far East, 1901–1909." Pacific Historical Review 35.4 : 433–449.
• O'Gara, Gordon Carpenter. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modern Navy..
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• Oyos, Matthew M. In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military
• Pietrusza, David. TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
• Ricard, Serge. “An Atlantic Triangle in the 1900s: Theodore Roosevelt’s ‘Special Relationships’ with France and Britain.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8#3 : 202–12.
• Ricard, Serge, ed. A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, chapters by Lloyd Ambrosius, Douglas Eden, Carl Cavanaugh Hodge, J. Simon Rofe, and William Tilchin
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• Thompson, John M. Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of US Foreign Policy.
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• Turk, Richard W. The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Weisbrode K. "Roosevelt's Man in Europe" Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 15#1:45-59. doi:10.1017/S1537781415000602 on Lewis Einstein
• Wimmel, Kenneth. Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet: American Seapower Comes of Age, popular history

Historiography and memory

• Bakari, Mohamed El-Kamel. "Mapping the 'Anthropocentric-ecocentric'Dualism in the History of American Presidency: The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent." Journal of Studies in Social Sciences 14, no. 2.
• Cullinane, M. Patrick, ed. Remembering Theodore Roosevelt: Reminiscences of his Contemporaries
• Cullinane, M. Patrick. “The Memory of Theodore Roosevelt through Motion Pictures” in A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, ed. Serge Ricard, 502–520.
• Cunliffe, Marcus. "Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States 1901–1908" History Today 4#9 pp. 592–601, online.
• Gable, John. “The Man in the Arena of History: The Historiography of Theodore Roosevelt” in Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American, eds. Natalie Naylor, Douglas Brinkley and John Gable, 613–643.
• Hull, Katy. "Hero, Champion of Social Justice, Benign Friend: Theodore Roosevelt in American Memory." European journal of American studies 13.13-2.
• Ricard, Serge. "The State of Theodore Roosevelt Studies"
• , excerpt and text search, 28 new essays by scholars; focus on historiography.
• West, Mark I. Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading .
• Wetzel, Benjamin J. "Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–1918." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 22.2 : 184-203.

Primary sources

• Auchincloss, Louis, ed. Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches
• Brands, H. W. The selected letters of Theodore Roosevelt
• O'Toole, Patricia ed. In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt : Quotations from the Man in the Arena
• Hart, Albert Bushnell, and Herbert Ronald Ferleger, Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, short excerpts.
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• Morison, Elting E. ed. The letters of Theodore Roosevelt ;
• The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt 4500 pages in Kindle format
• Kohn, Edward P., ed. A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877–1886, 284 pp.
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• , 20 vol.; 18,000 pages containing most of TR's speeches, books and essays, but not his letters.
• , Roosevelt's opinions on many issues; online version at .
• , 8 vols. Very large collection.
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