New York Sun

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a New Biography, Is Captured by Indirection

How can one write history so that it seems like a thriller? How does one write a biography without making the subject the centerpiece of the narrative? I have no idea if David Pietrusza asked himself ...
The Atlantic

Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography

THIS is a ‘personal' rather than an ‘intimate’ biography, and the reader learns almost as much of Mr. Thayer’s views on recent public questions as of Roosevelt’s creed and conduct. The earlier ...
The New York Times

GROSVENOR "SPEECH" WRITTEN BY ROOSEVELT?; Campaign Biography Believed to be an Autobiography.

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The New York Times

ROOSEVELT SEEN BY GERMAN EYES; " From Cavalryman to President" the Title of a Biography Issued in Berlin. STORY OF A JEW-BAITER Anecdote of Roosevelt's Career as Police ...

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WESA

Volume 3 Of Eleanor Roosevelt Biography Chronicles The Rise Of An Activist

Last things first. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the third volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental biography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the way it ends. I don't think I've ever read another ...