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A sense of style: remembering Edith Kermit Roosevelt

A sense of style: remembering Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Nancy-Dabney Jackson examines the private life of her grandmother, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. She focuses on Roosevelt’s life after the death of her husband, Theodore Roosevelt. Jackson looks at Roosevelt’s church attendance, her love of gardening and the outdoors, and her devotion to reading. She notes that Roosevelt wore mourning black after her husband’s death and that she remained an intensely private person. Two photographs of Roosevelt appear in the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1999

Creator(s)

Jackson, Nancy-Dabney, 1923-2010

Candidates Key Up The Public For Big Election Campaign

Candidates Key Up The Public For Big Election Campaign

A compilation of newsreel clips regarding the 1932 U.S. presidential election. President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover receive Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt at a White House garden party, where a crowd is gathered. Herbert Hoover is seen speaking on a radio program. Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt sits and speaks with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner.

Collection

Sherman Grinberg Film Collection

Creation Date

1932-08-01

Creator(s)

Pathé News

Book notes

Book notes

John A. Gable begins the “Book Notes” column with a review of Sylvia Jukes Morris’s biography Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady. In doing so, he provides a shorter, but still complete examination of Roosevelt’s life, and highlights the research Morris did utilizing letters, Roosevelt’s diary, and interviews.

Three pictures of Edith Roosevelt are included in the review: one considered the favorite of her husband, Theodore Roosevelt; a drawing by John Singer Sargent; and a third of Edith Roosevelt with Lou Henry Hoover, the wife of Herbert Hoover.

In Gable’s following review of Frederick W. Mark’s Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt, Gable places the work in the context of other studies of Roosevelt and argues that it represents a further step in an ongoing reappraisal of Roosevelt. He quotes extensively from Marks and from Edmund Morris’s review of the work.

A picture of Roosevelt at his desk at Sagamore Hill accompanies the review.

A listing of the officers and the members of the executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is included among the reviews.