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President Roosevelt thanks John T. Loomis for his hard work on preparing the cases, covers, and books needed for the upcoming safari.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-19
William N. Tilchin charts the path to publication of the translation of a French booklet about Theodore Roosevelt by Leon Bazalgette. The 1905 tract was translated by Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris and offered to John A. Gable, editor of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal (TRAJ), in 2001. Tilchin describes the rediscovery of the translation by Gregory A. Wynn and the subsequent enlistment of the French Roosevelt scholar Serge Ricard to assist in the publication and contextualization of the translation. The front cover illustrations from works by Ricard and Morris supplement the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2020
Michael Patrick Cullinane argues that the publication of Heather Cole’s Theodore Roosevelt: A Descriptive Bibliography will enhance the understanding and appreciation of Theodore Roosevelt as an author and intellectual which is too often overshadowed by the hunter, soldier, and man of action. Cullinane explores the roots of the bibliography stretching back to the 1920s, and he praises Cole for both her work in compiling the bibliography and for paying attention to its look with the inclusion of color illustrations and manuscript pages. The front and back covers of the bibliography and three examples of its illustrations supplement the review.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2020
This issue’s front cover features the cover to Michael Patrick Cullinane’s 2017 book Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost while a photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt in Yellowstone National Park in 1903 appears on the back cover.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2017
William N. Tilchin discusses the significance of Edmund Morris’s three volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt on the heels of Morris’s death in May 2019. Tilchin cites a letter to him from John A. Gable, a former Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in which Gable claims that Morris’s The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt completely upended Roosevelt’s historical standing. Tilchin also quotes from Roosevelt’s address to the American Historical Association in 1912, and he asserts that Morris’s work meets Roosevelt’s challenge that good history should be well written and considered as literature. Tilchin’s essay serves as an introduction to a chapter from Morris’s second volume, Theodore Rex.
The covers of all three volumes of the Roosevelt trilogy join a photograph of Morris with Tweed Roosevelt, and an excerpt from Gable’s letter to Tilchin in illustrating the essay.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2019