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William N. Tilchin discusses the long process of compiling, editing, and publishing Spotlighting TR: Selections from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 2007-2014. Tilchin notes the obstacles presented by finances and finding enough time to work on the project. Tilchin acknowledges the support of Boston University for a sabbatical leave and Amy Krueger for her design and production work.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2017
At the London book launch for A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, Douglas Eden provides an overview of Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy, noting its main tenets and its achievements, and he highlights how Roosevelt’s policies came to influence his presidential successors. Eden also reviews the historiography of Roosevelt, demonstrating the renewed appreciation for Roosevelt since the low point of the 1930s. Eden asserts that A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt demonstrates that many scholars are now interested in studying Roosevelt, a marked change from when he began his work.
A photograph of four of the contributors to the book, its front cover, and its table of contents accompany the text. A text box contains the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Police Commissioner Roosevelt informs Oswald Garrison Villard that the volume in which he discussed Harmer has already been sent out, although he may add an appendix to the volume he is publishing. He asks where he can find the correspondence of Henry Knox.
1896-03-02
Houghton Mifflin Company requests an update on Theodore Roosevelt’s revisions of his books Gouverneur Morris and Thomas H. Benton. The printers are almost out of copies of those articles and they are anxious to get the new editions, even if that means the introductions Roosevelt proposed are not quite ready yet. They hope Roosevelt can notify them of the status before he travels west with the Army.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-05-12
Cleveland H. Dodge expresses appreciation for Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt’s book New York City: A History. Dodge finds that Roosevelt has shown a “capital sense of proportion,” “splendid patriotism,” and will help give a “higher sense of pride and loyalty” in order to leader to “nobler efforts for the City’s best good.” Dodge also finds Roosevelt to be a source of encouragement and inspiration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1891-03-20