The Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt
Burke, Mike, Army
The Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Roosevelt. Edmund Morris. Random House. 784 pages; black-and-white photographs; index; $35.
Theodore Roosevelt is a man difficult to categorize. There is the Mount Rushmore version, set in granite alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, where he seems out of place; the cartoonists' caricature of pince-nez, moustache and toothy grin; the man behind the Great White Fleet, the Panama Canal, speaking softly and carrying a big stick; and, recently, the silly version found in those "Night at the Museum" films. Even "colonel," his preferred honorific from the Spanish- American War, seems risible. But Edmund Morris, his longtime biographer, …
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Publication information:
Article title: The Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt.
Contributors: Burke, Mike - Author.
Magazine title: Army.
Volume: 61.
Issue: 7
Publication date: July 2011.
Page number: 68+.
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