Theodore Roosevelt

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• 1/7/19
  

  Yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's Death. Here's How His Legacy Still Shapes the United States Today.

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  From national parks to corporate regulation, Teddy's ideas surround us. 

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• SOURCE: The Jamestown Sun
  12-8-2018
  

  North Dakota governor wants to spend $50 million to build Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

  It’s "North Dakota’s Mount Rushmore.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-17-18
  

  Thousands of Theodore Roosevelt’s Papers Are Now Online

  According to the Library of Congress, its collection of Roosevelt’s papers has become the world’s largest, with 276,000 documents and more than 460,000 images.

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• 9/30/18
  

  How the Federal Government Banned a Book (Mine) in NYC in 2018

  by David Pietrusza

  Is the story of the possible suicide of a president (in this case Teddy Roosevelt) off limits?

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  9-17-18
  

  Teddy vs. Trump: The Art of the Square Deal

  by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Roosevelt’s evolution as a dealmaker defined his presidency—and offers profound lessons to the current occupant of the Oval Office.

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• 9/15/18
  

  Hardly Like Trump!

  by John R. Van Atta

  How the Rough Riders made Theodore Roosevelt a “celebrity hero.”

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10-15-17
  

  Fight over national monuments intensifies

  House Republicans are moving forward with a bill to reform a century-old conservation law, raising the stakes in their ongoing effort to curtail the president's’ ability to set aside wide swaths of federal land as national monuments and protect them from future development.

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• 10-1-17
  

  The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen Kinzer

  by Robin Lindley

  Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and U.S. expansionism at the end of the 19th century.

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• 8-6-17
  

  Trump’s Failing Use of the Bully Pulpit

  by David McLennan

  Since TR presidents have been using emotional stories to persuade the public to support their policies. Trump? Not so much.

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• 2-5-17
  

  You Want to Understand Politics and History? You Have to Understand People.

  by Eric Burns

  A biographer explains how he approached his latest subject, Eleanor Roosevelt.

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• 2-14-16
  

  Why I Wrote a Book About TR’s Relationship with His Son Quentin

  by Eric Burns

  Admittedly, this is an unusually small topic for a book about Roosevelt, a man who looms large. But I have three reasons.

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• 9-27-15
  

  TR and Trump: Two Very Different People, but There’s this One Significant Similarity

  by Margaret O’Mara

  At a restive moment in history, renegades draw millions to their side.

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• 6-14-15
  

  Theodore Roosevelt: An Old West Sheriff in the White House

  by Daniel Ruddy

  And the greatest law-and-order president in American history (and the last one to wear a gun in the White House).

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• 12-7-14
  

  Theodore Roosevelt’s Biggest Mistake

  by Harry Lembeck

  A century on, his decision to discharge black troops in the Brownsville case singes his legacy.

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• 4-21-14
  

  Review of "Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt"

  by Murray Polner

  To read "Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt" we see a more balanced and nuanced portrait of the man who refused to be silent even after losing the 1912 election to Woodrow Wilson.

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• 1-27-14
  

  Ed, Do You Really Want to Invoke Ted?

  by Michael Patrick Cullinane

  UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is fond of citing Teddy Roosevelt's anti-trust crusades, but that's not going to be enough for an electoral victory.

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• 1-20-14
  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin Tackles the “Irrepressible Conflict” of 1912

  by Sheldon M. Stern

  William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt used to be the closest of intimates... until the election of 1912.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  10-31-13
  

  Spielberg to adapt Doris Kearns Goodwin's "The Bully Pulpit"

  "The Bully Pulpit" chronicles the friendship between Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

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• 3-18-13
  

  A Primer on America’s Forgotten "Nasty Little War": An Interview with Gregg Jones

  by Robin Lindley

  An interview about his new book, "Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream."

• SOURCE: WSJ
  1-17-13
  

  Q&A: Roosevelt Biographer Recalls an Earlier Top Cop

  ...But with a crowded race for City Hall this year and some likely candidates suggesting they would like appoint a different top cop, it remains unclear what’s might come next for the long-time commissioner. Metropolis spoke with historian Edmund Morris, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a trilogy about Teddy Roosevelt, on how  Kelly compares with New York’s other famous police commissioner. Here is the edited interview:Metropolis:  What drew TR into the police force? And how was policing different back then?Morris: TR came back to the city of his birth in 1895, after six long years as a civil service commissioner in Washington, ambitious to be a moral force in the reform administration of Mayor William L. Strong.Ironically, his restless progressivism ran into even more opposition here than it had been in the nation’s capital. This was partly because TR was just one member of the city’s four-man board of police commissioners (as president of the board, he had only titular preeminence). But it was also because he seemed to go out of his way to alienate such entrenched, conservative interests as the saloon industry, Wall Street, and indeed the corrupt ranks of the police force itself.