Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Auchincloss
Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Auchincloss
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Theodore Roosevelt
The American Presidents Series: The 26th President, 1901-1909

Author: Louis Auchincloss, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Narrator: Ira Claffey

Unabridged: 3 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2003

Synopsis

An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century

The warm and knowing biography traces Roosevelt's involvement in the politics of New York City and New York State, his celebrated, military career, and his ascent to the national political stage. Caricatured through history as the "bull moose", Roosevelt was in fact a man of extraordinary discipline whose refined and literate tastes actually helped spawn his fascination with the rough-and-ready world of war and wilderness.

About Louis Auchincloss

Louis Auchincloss was a highly renowned novelist, literary critic, and historian. The author of more than fifty books, including The Rector of Justin, The House of Five Talents, and The Atonement, he was a former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., (1917-2007) was the preeminent political historian of our time. For more than half a century, he was a cornerstone figure in the intellectual life of the nation and a fixture on the political scene. He won two Pulitzer prizes for The Age of Jackson (1946) and A Thousand Days (1966), and in 1988 received the National Humanities Medal. He published the first volume of his autobiography, A Life in the Twentieth Century, in 2000.

About Ira Claffey

Ira Claffey has narrated or co-narrated numerous audio titles from Macmillan Audio.  His work includes Rock Rats,and several tiles in the American Presidents Series: Thomas Jefferson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland, James Madison, and Theodore Roosevelt.  Of Claffey’s narration of Theodore Roosevelt, AudioFile magazine has said, “Ira Claffey's passionate but cultivated voice is the perfect medium in which to join two men of refinement.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by robin on August 08, 2024

The Strenuous Life The short biographies that form the American Presidents series do an admirable job in capturing the heart of the accomplishments and characters of our country's leaders. Some of the volumes succeed further in offering, in addition to an introduction, challenging reassessments of th......more

Goodreads review by Bill on August 06, 2019

Louis Auchincloss’ Theodore Roosevelt is one of the best entries in Times Books “The American Presidents” series. The book is well organized, and novelist Auchincloss brings to his task not only a singularly useful sociological and cutural perspective but also a superb prose style. Each entry in the......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 31, 2020

More of a postscript than an introduction to Theodore Rex - the author assumes a lot of prior knowledge about the Bull Moose's wacky exploits, which I'm sure makes for interesting discussion among professional historians but is less useful to amateurs like me.......more

Goodreads review by Ben on August 12, 2019

Theodore Roosevelt is the twenty-fifth book in The American Presidents series – a biographical series chronicling the Presidents of the United States. Louis Auchincloss wrote this particular installment and edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, politic......more

Goodreads review by Steve on January 16, 2022

A decent small book about TR. I felt like it was written by a member of the Teddy Roosevelt fan club. Presented him in a good light, and glossed over some of the challenges of his administration. While I enjoyed the book as an introduction to a man who is routinely ranked by historians as a top five......more

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