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In the 1970s historian David McCullough asked P. James Roosevelt, who is regarded as the head of the Oyster Bay branch of the Roosevelt family, if he thought there was any important facet of Theodore Roosevelt that had been neglected by TR’s biographers. “Yes,” P. James Roosevelt said. “No writer seems to have understood the degree to which he was part of a clan.”1
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David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), 12.
Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (New York: Harper & Row, 1989);
Sylvia Jukes Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980);
Peter Collier with David Horowitz, The Roosevelts: An American Saga (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994);
Betty Boyd Caroli, The Roosevelt Women (New York: Basic Books, 1998);
Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998);
Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Roosevelt Family in America: A Genealogy, published in the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal XVI, nos. 1, 2, 3 (1990).
Cornelius A. van Minnen, ed., Ten More Years! A Celebration of the Roosevelt Study Center’s Tenth Anniversary on 19 September 1996 (Middleburg, Netherlands: Roosevelt Study Center: 1997).
See Nathan Miller, The Roosevelt Chronicles (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1979).
TR, quoted from Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1913), 15–16;
on the Bullochs, see Clarece Martin, “The Southern Heritage of Theodore Roosevelt,” in Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds., Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American (Interlaken, NY: Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1992), 35–44;
James D. Bulloch, The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1883), 2 vols.
Otis L. Graham Jr. and Meghan R. Wander, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times, An Encyclopedic View (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985), 382–83.
Edward K. Eckert, introduction to Theodore Roosevelt, The Naval War of 1812 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987), xi–xxxii.
On Theodore Roosevelt Jr. as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, see Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Day Before Yesterday: The Reminiscences of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), chaps. 15, 16.
Kenneth J. Hagan, This People’s Navy: The Making of American Sea Power (New York: The Free Press, 1991), 283.
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890–1914 (New York: Macmillan, 1966), 274, 277–82.
Frederick W. Marks III, Wind Over Sand: The Diplomacy of Franklin Roosevelt (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988);
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Gable, J.A. (2001). Theodore Roosevelt and the Heritage of the U.S. Navy. In: Marolda, E.J. (eds) Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy, and the Spanish-American War. The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05501-9_5
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