The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill
New York, N.Y. The Macmillan Company, 1954. Presumed First Edition, Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 435, [5] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. In Lieu of Footnotes. Index. The DJ has some wear, tears, chips and soiling. Bookplate. Some endpaper discoloration. Contents include The Growing Family (1887-1901); Summer White House (1901-1910); and Beacon on Sagamore. Hermann Hagedorn (18 July 1882 – 27 July 1964) was an author, poet and biographer. He was born in New York City and educated at Harvard University, where he was awarded the George B. Sohier Prize for literature. 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. Derived from a Kirkus review: A staunch and genial portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, his wife-Edith, and their five children along with Alice daughter of his first marriage, follows not only the strenuous course of his public life but concentrates on the cheerful, crowded family activities at Sagamore Hill. Here, the vigorous and vociferous Roosevelt was to be complemented by the sedate and self-effacing Edith, and together they shared in the pride and pleasure that Ted, Kermit, Ethel, Archie and Quentin were to give them through the years. Roosevelt's sudden political rise, from Rough Rider to Governor to Vice-President to President, the reversal and rejection by his party; his stormy criticisms of the "spineless neutrality" of the administration; and finally the war- which took his four boys overseas and exacerbated his feeling of uselessness all lead toward the heartbreak of Quentin's death which he did not long survive. Mr. Hagedorn is thoroughly enamored with his subject and brings to his work an air of open admiration as well as an amplitude of domestic detail and personal interchange. The publishers will promote this and the opening of Sagamore Hill as a national "shrine" may have helped to revive interest. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, U.S. Presidents, Edith Carow, Progressive, Alice Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Rough Riders, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, William McKinley, Spanish-American War
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