The Presidency: Theodore Roosevelt's Life And Legacy

Theodore Roosevelt, born October 27, 1858 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, was the 26th President of the United States. He was president from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909. Roosevelt was married to Alice Hathaway Lee from 1880 to 1884 and Edith Roosevelt from 1886 until his death in 1919. He had 6 children, 2 daughters: Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Ethel Roosevelt Derby, and 4 sons: Kermit Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. The President before him was William McKinley and the President after him was William Howard Taft. Many people have written about Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, I will tell you about three of them. Lewis L Gould originally wrote a book in 1991 called The Presidency

I enjoyed that he started with Roosevelt’s early life and not just his presidency. I’m glad that Morris wrote about his life after being President and going on more adventures. The amount of information that Morris gathered about Roosevelt was kind of overwhelming but kind of cool at the same time. Morris must have had to endure a lot to write three huge books about one man, one legend, one president, one Theodore Roosevelt. The first book talked about his early life and career before politics, which was interesting to me because I knew he travelled through the Dakotas before becoming President, but I didn’t know about the other adventures he had before his presidency, also I didn’t know that he went to Harvard. The second book was about Roosevelt’s life in office, which wasn’t as exciting as the first book because there was no advenuring in this book like in the first one but it still was interesting that he did so many cool things as President and made everyone feel like they knew him on a personal level. The third book was about his life after presidency, which picked up the excitement from the first book again as Teddy went on some more adventures after being President, I didn’t know that he went on an African safari, through a jungle in South America, or that he ran for President again after Taft left office. Morris’s trilogy was a really exciting adventure through Theodore Roosevelt’s

Pringle isn’t exactly a fan of Roosevelt throughout the book has a tone of skeptical and critical. Other authors talk about how great Roosevelt is, but Pringle decided to do the opposite and talk mostly about his weaknesses. Pringle never bought into the popularity of Theodore Roosevelt’s greatness, but his disapproval becomes less strict as the book goes on, and just become though-provoking. There is very little talk about Theodore’s family, and he very briefly talks about his life in the Dakotas, his early career in Washington and New York, his “Rough Rider” campaign, or his travels through Africa and South America. The book’s main focus is about Roosevelt’s political career rather than the adventures and fun things Roosevelt did. Pringle forces readers to think about Roosevelt’s greatest successes and strengths as his greatest weaknesses also. The book fails at covering all of the essentials of Roosevelt’s life that help people understand who he was easier, but the criticism is reasonable. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in