Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

By Joseph Bucklin Bishop and Theodore Roosevelt

Book Overview

Towards the end of Theodore Roosevelt's life in 1918, newspaper editor Joseph Bucklin Bishop worked with the former president to collect and publish letters Roosevelt had written to his children throughout their lives. Published posthumously, the volume became a bestseller and revealed a heartwarming side of Teddy as a father. Beginning before his children could even read, Roosevelt wrote "picture letters," that included his own delightful illustrations that evoke the imagination of childhood. Continuing through his children's youth and adolescence, the letters are filled with love, humor, advice and of course animals and nature. Discover a uniquely personal window into the family life of Theodore Roosevelt and be inspired by this loving tribute to fatherhood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1429045507
• ISBN13: 9781429045506
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Applewood Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent descriptions of early frontier life

Before Roosevelt begins sensationalizing in the second volume, he describes the utter wilderness of the region and characterizes both the individual settlers and Indians who would play decisive roles in the settlement and migration of whites westward, and also gives sweeping portraits of the Indian nations encountered during our westward expansion. The hardships of the settlers due to the ruggedness of their new mountain home, their self-reliance, the cold winters, the need to fell forest for pasture and tillage, the daily peril of Indian attacks, and the distant relations with their origins to the east complete this wonderfully written and diversified study of early American frontier life.

A bully read, but patience helps....

Roosevelt does quite well to capture the essence of what went on during the period when the colonists began westward. The point made by the editor that it is indeed a wonder that this work was ever created at all is well taken when one considers Roosevelt's involvement with so much else in his life while he produced what, for the time, was a very scholarly opus.One must be patient with the narrative; it tends to be choppy. One must also be patient with, or at least understanding of, TR's view of the world and especially his notion of upon whom the greater glory of the westward expansion rests.All in all, it is seemingly a must read (as is the entire series) for anyone having either an interest in the history of this time, or an interest in TR and his works.

A Great Man Writes a Great History

Theodore's Roosevelt's "The Winning of The West" volume one is unlike most modern histories. His is a story of the founding of the American Republic West of the Original 13. This volume is of the late Colonial Period. He is unafraid to make very harsh judgements, attacking both the American Indians and the Pioneers, although it is clear who he favours. He does have many prejudices, but, to be honest, most Historians do. President Roosevelt's were just of the less respected, today at least, kind. The whole series is very much worth reading, and is a worthy investment of capital and time. Ryan M.