Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

John A. Gable reviews Douglas Brinkley’s The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey and highlights the work’s section on Medora, North Dakota. Gable notes that some of the royalties from the sale of the book will go to the Theodore Roosevelt Association, and he quotes at length from Brinkley’s call for a return to basics in teaching American history. The review is followed by an excerpt from The Majic Bus. “Book Notes” also discusses the conferring of the 1993 Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize to Brinkley and his co-author Townsend Hoopes for their biography of James Forrestal, and it lists all of the recipients of the prize from 1986 to 1993. The section also includes a meditation of Theodore Roosevelt by William Hard in which he asserts that Roosevelt’s magnetic personality could transform the ordinary into the “immortally interesting.”

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1993

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.; Brinkley, Douglas; Hard, William; Unknown

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Chase Untermeyer examines the evolution of the office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy from the time it was held by Theodore Roosevelt until Untermeyer’s entry into the role in 1984. Untermeyer also provides a biography of Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman and asserts that Roosevelt would have approved of his career and policies. Untermeyer praises the work of President Ronald Reagan and Lehman in enlarging the U.S. Navy, and he quotes Roosevelt to draw a parallel between the world of 1897 and that of 1979-1980.

A photograph of Untermeyer appears on the first page of the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal