Book Reviews
Subject(s): Billy, the Kid, Chanler, Margaret, 1862-1952, Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron, 1864-1945, DeMattos, Jack, 1944-, Derby, Ethel Roosevelt, Felsenthal, Carol, Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-1952, Garrett, Pat F. (Pat Floyd), 1850-1908, Gould, Lewis L., History--Book reviews, James, Henry, 1843-1916, Lewis, Nancy, 1925-, Lewis, R. W. B. (Richard Warrington Baldwin), Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980, Mecklermedia Corporation, Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, Teague, Michael, Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, White, William Allen, 1868-1944
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Two books are reviewed and two books are revisited in this edition of the “Book Reviews” section. John A. Gable examines The Letters of Edith Wharton and focuses on what the letters reveal about Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt’s sister, and Ethel Roosevelt Derby, the president’s daughter. Gable provides portraits of each, and he notes that Edith Wharton “regarded [Theodore] Roosevelt with an awe bordering on worship.” Perry D. Floyd asserts that Garrett and Roosevelt falls short as a biography of the last twenty years of lawman Pat F. Garrett’s life in part because there was not much a relationship between Garrett and Roosevelt. Floyd says that the available evidence cannot support the book’s title.
The column offers extended quotes from Lewis L. Gould and Gable taken from their reviews of Carol Felsenthal’s biography Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and it features a notice (which acts as an advertisement) about the reissue of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. The notice quotes from William Allen White’s foreword to the 1941 edition.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Creation Date
1989
Creator(s)
Gable, John A.; Floyd, Perry D.; Unknown
Language
English
Period
Theodore Roosevelt and Public Memory (1919-present)
Page Count
5
Production Method
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
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Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
Book Reviews. [1989]. Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o307794. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Gable, John A.; Floyd, Perry D.; Unknown. Book Reviews. [1989]. Image.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. March 12, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o307794.
APA:
Gable, John A.; Floyd, Perry D.; Unknown., [1989]. Book Reviews.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o307794.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/theodore-roosevelt-association-journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. March 12, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/theodore-roosevelt-association-journal.
APA:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/theodore-roosevelt-association-journal.
