The books that I read and when and how I do my reading
Subject(s): Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902, Adventure stories, Aeschylus, Alger, George W. (George William), 1872-1967, Aristophanes, Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877, Books and reading, Bordeaux, Henry, 1870-1963, Brieux, Eugène, 1858-1932, Browning, Robert, 1812-1889, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881, Children--Books and reading, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, Coulton, G. G. (George Gordon), 1858-1947, Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927, Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine), 1852-1936, Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861, Economics, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Eugene, of Savoy, Prince of Savoy, 1663-1736, Fiction, Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932, Gray, David, 1838-1861, Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908, Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Herodotus, Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674, History, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935, Horace, Irving, Washington, 1783-1859, Keats, John, 1795-1821, Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900, Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, Körner, Theodor, 1791-1813, Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834, Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944, Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859, Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919, Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914, Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834, Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de, 1782-1854, Milton, John, 1608-1674, Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592, Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877, Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957, Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853, Oman, Charles, 1860-1946, Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893, Philosophy, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Polybius, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, Reading (Adult education), Reading interests, Reading promotion, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, Ruyter, Michiel Adriaanszoon de, 1607-1676, Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805, Scott, Walter, 1771-1832, Sheldon, Charles M., 1857-1946, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822, Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 1846-1916, Smith, Adam, 1723-1790, Sociology, Sophocles, Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903, Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909, Tacitus, Cornelius, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, Thucydides, Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910, Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928, Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, baron de l’Aulne, 1727-1781, Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, Waddington, Richard, 1838-1913, Ward, Artemus, 1834-1867, Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919, White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
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In his article for Ladies’ Home Journal, Theodore Roosevelt describes the benefits of reading and provides advice on how to get people of any age interested in reading “serious literature.” Roosevelt elaborates on his reading habits and book selection processes, which stem from both his current mood and educational desires.
Collection
Creation Date
1915-04
Creator(s)
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Language
English
Period
Post-Presidential Years (1913-January 6, 1919)
Page Count
2
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Multi-image
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Citation
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Chicago:
The books that I read and when and how I do my reading. [April 1, 1915]. Marple Collection. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o292909. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. The books that I read and when and how I do my reading. [1 Apr. 1915]. Multi-image.
Marple Collection. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. December 19, 2025. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o292909.
APA:
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919., [1915, April 1]. The books that I read and when and how I do my reading.
Marple Collection. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o292909.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Marple Collection. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/marple-collection. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Marple Collection. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. December 19, 2025. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/marple-collection.
APA:
Marple Collection. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/marple-collection.
