Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt

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This bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt is a list of published works about Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. The titles are selected from tens of thousands of publications about him.[1][2][3]

Full biographies[edit]

  • Blake, Michael F. (March 2018), The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt, Billings, MT: Two Dot Press, ISBN 978-1493030712
  • Brands, Henry William (1997), TR: The Last Romantic (full biography), New York: Basic Books, ISBN 978-0-465-06958-3, OCLC 36954615.
  • Chessman, G Wallace (1965), Governor Theodore Roosevelt: The Albany Apprenticeship, 1898–1900
  • Cooper, John Milton (1983), The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (dual scholarly biography), Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-94751-1.
  • Dalton, Kathleen (2002), Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (full scholarly biography), Knopf Doubleday Publishing, ISBN 978-0-679-76733-6.
  • Gould, Lewis L (2012), Theodore Roosevelt, 105 pp, very short biography by leading scholar.
  • Harbaugh, William Henry (1963), The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (full scholarly biography), Farrar, Straus And Cudahy.
  • Miller, Nathan (1992), Theodore Roosevelt: A Life, William Morrow & Co.
  • Morris, Edmund (1979), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1. To 1901; Pulitzer prize for Volume 1.
  • Morris, Edmund (2001), Theodore Rex, vol. 2. To 1909
  • Morris, Edmund (2010), Colonel Roosevelt, vol. 3
  • Pringle, Henry F (1956) [1932], Theodore Roosevelt (full scholarly biography) (2nd ed.).
  • Putnam, Carleton (1958), Theodore Roosevelt (biography), vol. I: The Formative Years, only volume published, to age 28.
  • Samuels, Peggy (1997), Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan: The Making of a President, Texas A&M UP, ISBN 9780890967713.
  • Thayer, William Roscoe (1919), Theodore Roosevelt: an intimate biography, Houghton Mifflin.

Personality and activities[edit]

  • Bishop, Joseph Bucklin (2007), Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children, Wildside Press, ISBN 978-1-434-48394-2.
  • Canfield, Michael R. (2015). Theodore Roosevelt in the Field. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-22629-837-5.
  • Fehn, Bruce (2005), "Theodore Roosevelt and American Masculinity", Magazine of History, 19 (2): 52–59, doi:10.1093/maghis/19.2.52, ISSN 0882-228X Provides a lesson plan on TR as the historical figure who most exemplifies the quality of masculinity.
  • Gardner, Mark Lee (2016), Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0062312082
  • Gluck, Sherwin (1999), TR's Summer White House, Oyster Bay. 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 (2013)
  • Greenberg, David (2011), "Beyond the Bully Pulpit", Wilson Quarterly, 35 (3): 22–29. The president's use of publicity, rhetoric and force of personality.
  • Wagenknecht, Edward. The seven worlds of Theodore Roosevelt (1958) The seven worlds are those of action, thought, human relations, family, spiritual values, public affairs, and war and peace. online
  • Watts, Sarah (2003), Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire. 289 pp.
  • Wetzel, Benjamin J. Theodore Roosevelt: Preaching from the Bully Pulpit. (Oxford UP, 2021), a spiritual biography
  • Yarbrough, Jean M. (2012), Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition, University Press of Kansas, 337 pp; TR's political thought and its significance for republican self-government.

Domestic policies[edit]

  • Dorsey, Leroy G. (1997), "The Frontier Myth and Teddy Roosevelt's Fight for Conservation", in Gerster, Patrick; Cords, Nicholas (eds.), Myth America: A Historical Anthology, vol. II, St. James, NY: Brandywine Press, ISBN 1-881089-97-5.
  • Gould, Lewis L. (2011), The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (2nd ed.), standard history of his domestic and foreign policy as president. online
  • Murphey, William (March 2013), "Theodore Roosevelt and the Bureau of Corporation: Executive-Corporate Cooperation and the Advancement of the Regulatory State", American Nineteenth Century History, 14 (1): 73–111, doi:10.1080/14664658.2013.774983, S2CID 146629376.
  • Redekop, Benjamin. (2015). "Embodying the Story: The Conservation Leadership of Theodore Roosevelt". Leadership (2015) DOI:10.1177/1742715014546875 online
  • Swanson, Ryan A. (2011), "'I Never Was a Champion at Anything': Theodore Roosevelt's Complex and Contradictory Record as America's 'Sports President'", Journal of Sport History, 38 (3): 425–446, doi:10.5406/jsporthistory.38.3.425, S2CID 159307371.
  • Tyrrell, Ian, (2015) Crisis of the Wasteful Nation : Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America (U of Chicago Press. 2015). eBook.
  • Zacks, Richard (2012), Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York.

Politics[edit]

  • Blum, John Morton (1954), The Republican Roosevelt, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, OCLC 310975. How TR did politics.
  • Chace, James (2004), 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs: The Election That Changed the Country, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-7432-0394-4, 323 pp.
  • Chambers, John W. (1974), Woodward, C. Vann (ed.), Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct, New York, New York: Delacorte Press, pp. 207–237, ISBN 0-440-05923-2
  • Cowan, Geoffrey. Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary (WW Norton, 2016).
  • Gable, John A. The Bull Moose Years (Kennikat Press Corp., 1978) 300pp on Roosevelt.
  • Gould, Lewis L. (2008), Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics (by a leading scholar), University Press of Kansas, ISBN 978-0-7006-1564-3.
  • Haverkamp, Michael (2001), "Rossevelt and Taft: How the Republican Vote Split in Ohio in 1912", Ohio History, 110 (1): 121–135, archived from the original on March 5, 2008.
  • Kohn, Edward P. (Spring 2006), "A Necessary Defeat: Theodore Roosevelt and the New York Mayoral Election of 1886", New York History, 87: 205–227.
  • ——— (2006), "Crossing the Rubicon: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the 1884 Republican National Convention", Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 5 (1): 18–45, doi:10.1017/s1537781400002851, hdl:11693/48372, S2CID 163282993.
  • Leuchtenburg, William E. (2015), The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, Oxford University Press
  • Milkis, Sidney M. (2009), Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 361 pp.
  • Mowry, George E. (1939), "Theodore Roosevelt and the Election of 1910", The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 25 (4): 523–534, doi:10.2307/1892499, JSTOR 1892499.
  • ——— (1946), Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement. Focus on 1912; online free
  • ——— (1954), The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900–1912 (general survey of era). online free
  • Powell, Jim (2006), Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy, Crown Forum, ISBN 0-307-23722-2. Attacks TR policies from conservative/libertarian perspective.
  • Ruddy, Daniel (2016), Theodore the Great: Conservative Crusader, Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, ISBN 978-1-62157-441-5

Foreign policy, military and naval issues[edit]

  • Beale, Howard K. (1956), Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power (standard history of his foreign policy). online
  • Burton, D. H. "Theodore Roosevelt and the Special Relationship with Britain" History Today (Aug 1973), 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. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981).
  • Gardner, Mark Lee (2016), Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0062312082
  • Hattendorf, John B.; Leeman, William P. (2020), Forging the Trident: Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy.
  • Hendrix, Henry J. (2009), Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The US Navy & the Birth of the American Century.
  • Hodge, Carl Cavenaugh. (2008) “A Whiff of Cordite: Theodore Roosevelt and the Transoceanic Naval Arms Race, 1897-1909.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 19#4 (2008): 712–31.
  • Kuehn, John T. "Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century," Naval War College Review (2010) 53#3 online Archived October 24, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  • Livermore, Seward W. "Theodore Roosevelt, the American Navy, and the Venezuelan Crisis of 1902–1903." American Historical Review 51.3 (1946): 452–471. online Archived October 21, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  • Marks III, Frederick W. (1979), Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • McCullough, David (1977), The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914.
  • Mears, Dwight S. (2018). The Medal of Honor: The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2665-6. OCLC 1032014828.
  • Nester, William R. Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power: An American for All Time (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Nester, William R. (September 14, 2023). Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power: An American for All Time. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1498596756.
  • Neu, Charles E. "Theodore Roosevelt and American Involvement in the Far East, 1901–1909." Pacific Historical Review 35.4 (1966): 433–449. online Archived October 22, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  • O'Gara, Gordon Carpenter. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modern Navy. (Princeton UP, 1943). online
  • Oyos, Matthew (2011), "Courage, Careers, and Comrades: Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Army Officer Corps", Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 10 (1): 23–58, doi:10.1017/s1537781410000022, S2CID 155074242.
  • Oyos, Matthew M. In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military (2018) online review Archived January 21, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
  • Pietrusza, David (2018). TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
  • Ricard, Serge. (2010) “An Atlantic Triangle in the 1900s: Theodore Roosevelt’s ‘Special Relationships’ with France and Britain.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8#3 (2010): 202–12.
  • Ricard, Serge, ed. A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), chapters by Lloyd Ambrosius, Douglas Eden, Carl Cavanaugh Hodge, J. Simon Rofe, and William Tilchin
  • Ricard, Serge (2006), "The Roosevelt Corollary", Presidential Studies Quarterly, 36 (1): 17–26, doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2006.00283.x.
  • ——— (2008), "Theodore Roosevelt: Imperialist or Global Strategist in the New Expansionist Age?", Diplomacy and Statecraft, 19 (4): 639–657, doi:10.1080/09592290802564379, S2CID 154317468.
  • Rofe, J. Simon (2008), "'Under the Influence of Mahan': Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and their Understanding of American National Interest", Diplomacy and Statecraft, 19 (4): 732–745, doi:10.1080/09592290802564536, S2CID 154454947.
  • ———; Thompson, John M. (2011), "Internationalists in Isolationist times – Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and a Rooseveltian Maxim", Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 9 (1): 46–62, doi:10.1080/14794012.2011.550773, S2CID 143650928.
  • Thompson, John M. Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of US Foreign Policy (Oxford UP, 2019).
  • Tilchin, William N. (1997), Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft
  • Tilchin, William N; Neu, Charles E, eds. (2006), Artists of Power: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Their Enduring Impact on US Foreign Policy, Praeger. 196 pp.
  • Turk, Richard W. The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1987) online review Archived October 22, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  • Weisbrode K. "Roosevelt's Man in Europe" Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2016) 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 (Potomac Books, 1998), popular history

Historiography and memory[edit]

  • 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 (2016).
  • Cullinane, M. Patrick, ed. Remembering Theodore Roosevelt: Reminiscences of his Contemporaries (2021) excerpt
  • Cullinane, M. Patrick. “The Memory of Theodore Roosevelt through Motion Pictures” in A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, ed. Serge Ricard (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), 502–520.
  • Cullinane, Michael Patrick (2017). Theodore Roosevelt's Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-6672-7.
  • Cunliffe, Marcus. "Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States 1901–1908" History Today (Sept 1955) 4#9 pp. 592–601, online.
  • Dalton, Kathleen (2017). "Changing interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive era". In Nichols, Christopher M.; Unger, Nancy C. (eds.). A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. pp. 296–307.
  • 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 (Interlaken, NY: Hearts of the Lakes, 1992), 613–643.
  • Grantham, Dewey W. Jr. (January 1961). "Theodore Roosevelt in American Historical Writing, 1945–1960". Mid-America. 43 (1): 3–35.
  • Hull, Katy. "Hero, Champion of Social Justice, Benign Friend: Theodore Roosevelt in American Memory." European journal of American studies 13.13-2 (2018). online
  • Ricard, Serge. "The State of Theodore Roosevelt Studies" H-Diplo Essay No. 116 24 October 2014 online Archived October 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  • Ricard, Serge, ed. (2011). A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt. Wiley. ISBN 978-1-4443-3140-0., excerpt and text search, 28 new essays by scholars; focus on historiography.
  • Tilchin, William (Summer 1989). "The Rising Star of Theodore Roosevelt's Diplomacy: Major Studies from Beale to the Present". Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. 15 (3): 2–24.
  • West, Mark I. Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) online.
  • 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 (2023): 184-203.

Primary sources[edit]

  • Auchincloss, Louis, ed. Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches (2004)
  • Brands, H. W. The selected letters of Theodore Roosevelt (2001) online
  • O'Toole, Patricia ed. In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt : Quotations from the Man in the Arena (Cornell University Press, 2012)
  • Hart, Albert Bushnell, and Herbert Ronald Ferleger, Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia (1941) online, short excerpts.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Gregory C. Wilson, ed. Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Dictionary Catalogue and Shelflist (5 vols., Harvard University Press, 1970) has 52,000 entries.
  2. ^ John Hall Wheelock (1920). A bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 3.
  3. ^ John Allen Gable, "Selected and Annotated Bibliography" online