New York, N.Y. The Macmillan Company, 1954. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [10], 435, [5] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. In Lieu of Footnotes. Index. Contents include Book 1, The Growing Family (1887-1901); Book II, Summer White House (1901-1910); and Book III, Beacon on Sagamore. Ex-Library copy with the usual library markings. Hermann Hagedorn (18 July 1882 – 27 July 1964) was an American author, poet and biographer. He was born in New York City and educated at The Hill School and Harvard University, where he was awarded the George B. Sohier Prize for literature, the University of Berlin, and Columbia University. From 1909 to 1911, he was an instructor in English at Harvard. Hagedorn was a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. He also served as Secretary and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1919 to 1957. Drawing upon his friendship with Roosevelt, Hagedorn was able to elicit the support of Roosevelt's friends and associates' personal recollections in his biography of TR which was first published in 1918 and then updated in 1922. Drawing on the same friends and associates of Roosevelt, Hagedorn also published the first serious study of TR's experience as a rancher in the Badlands after the death of his wife and mother in 1884. Hagedorn's access to TR's associates in these two books has been utilized by historian, Edmund Morris in his two highly acclaimed biographical books on Roosevelt published in 1979 and 2001. Alive with the magic of Roosevelt's inspiring personality, this is the story of the joys and struggles,the defeats and triumphs of a family that made headlines and history for a quarter of a century. More

New York: Theodore Roosevelt Assoc. 1958. pocket paperbk, 184, wraps, illus., reading list, chronology, some wear to covers, small spine tear, stamp on front cover, some darkening to text marginal ink underlining on title page. This book was published for the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission. It contains a biographical sketch by Hermann Hagedorn, together with selections from Roosevelt's writings and speeches, views of his contemporaries (including Ralph Bunche, Elihu Root, Booth Tarkington, and Leonard Wood), and cartoons of the period. More