Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt

This bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt is a list of published works about Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. The titles are selected from tens of thousands of publications about him.

Full biographies

 * , 105 pp, very short biography by leading scholar.
 * ; Pulitzer prize for Volume 1.
 * , only volume published, to age 28.
 * , 105 pp, very short biography by leading scholar.
 * ; Pulitzer prize for Volume 1.
 * , only volume published, to age 28.
 * ; Pulitzer prize for Volume 1.
 * , only volume published, to age 28.
 * ; Pulitzer prize for Volume 1.
 * , only volume published, to age 28.
 * , only volume published, to age 28.
 * , only volume published, to age 28.
 * , only volume published, to age 28.

Personality and activities







 * Provides a lesson plan on TR as the historical figure who most exemplifies the quality of masculinity.


 * . Chronicles the events of TR's presidency during the summers of his two terms.


 * Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (2013)


 * . The president's use of publicity, rhetoric and force of personality.


 * ; his deadly 1913–14 trip to the Amazon.
 * , best seller; to 1886.
 * , to 1884.
 * Mexal, Stephen J. (2021) The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West (Lexington Books) online book review


 * . 494 pp.
 * , examines TR and his family during the World War I period.
 * , 240 pp. TR in Africa & Europe, 1909–10
 * 208 pp. A look at TR's formative years.
 * , 240 pp. TR in Africa & Europe, 1909–10
 * 208 pp. A look at TR's formative years.


 * Wagenknecht, Edward. The seven worlds of Theodore Roosevelt (1958) The seven worlds are those of action, thought, human relations, family, spiritual values, public affairs, and war and peace. online


 * . 289 pp.
 * Wetzel, Benjamin J. ''Theodore Roosevelt: Preaching from the Bully Pulpit. (Oxford UP, 2021), a spiritual biography


 * , 337 pp; TR's political thought and its significance for republican self-government.

Domestic policies

 * online review; another online review
 * Cutright, Paul Russell. (1956) Theodore Roosvelt the naturalist (1956) online
 * Cutright, Paul Russell. (1985) Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist (U of Illinois Press, 1985) online


 * , standard history of his domestic and foreign policy as president. online
 * , standard history of his domestic and foreign policy as president. online


 * Redekop, Benjamin. (2015). "Embodying the Story: The Conservation Leadership of Theodore Roosevelt". Leadership (2015) DOI:10.1177/1742715014546875 online
 * Redekop, Benjamin. (2015). "Embodying the Story: The Conservation Leadership of Theodore Roosevelt". Leadership (2015) DOI:10.1177/1742715014546875 online


 * Tyrrell, Ian, (2015) Crisis of the Wasteful Nation : Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America (U of Chicago Press. 2015). eBook.



Politics

 * . How TR did politics.
 * , 323 pp.
 * Cowan, Geoffrey. Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary (WW Norton, 2016).
 * Gable, John A. The Bull Moose Years (Kennikat Press Corp., 1978) 300pp on Roosevelt.
 * . 361 pp.
 * . Focus on 1912; online free
 * . online free
 * . Attacks TR policies from conservative/libertarian perspective.
 * . 361 pp.
 * . Focus on 1912; online free
 * . online free
 * . Attacks TR policies from conservative/libertarian perspective.
 * . Focus on 1912; online free
 * . online free
 * . Attacks TR policies from conservative/libertarian perspective.

Foreign policy, military and naval issues

 * . online
 * Burton, D. H. "Theodore Roosevelt and the Special Relationship with Britain" History Today (Aug 1973), Vol. 23 Issue 8, pp 527–535 online.
 * Coletta, Paolo E. "The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft." In American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review, edited by Gerald K. Haines and Samuel J. Walker, 91-114. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981).




 * Hodge, Carl Cavenaugh. (2008) “A Whiff of Cordite: Theodore Roosevelt and the Transoceanic Naval Arms Race, 1897-1909.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 19#4 (2008): 712–31.


 * . 328 pp.
 * Karsten, Peter. “The Nature of ‘Influence’: Roosevelt, Mahan, and the Concept of Sea Power.” American Quarterly 23#4 (1971): 585–600.
 * Karsten, Peter. “The Nature of ‘Influence’: Roosevelt, Mahan, and the Concept of Sea Power.” American Quarterly 23#4 (1971): 585–600.


 * Kuehn, John T. "Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century," Naval War College Review (2010) 53#3 online
 * Livermore, Seward W. "Theodore Roosevelt, the American Navy, and the Venezuelan Crisis of 1902–1903." American Historical Review 51.3 (1946): 452–471. online
 * Nester, William R. Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power: An American for All Time (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
 * Neu, Charles E. "Theodore Roosevelt and American Involvement in the Far East, 1901–1909." Pacific Historical Review 35.4 (1966): 433–449. online
 * O'Gara, Gordon Carpenter. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modern Navy. (Princeton UP, 1943). online
 * Oyos, Matthew M. In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military (2018) online review
 * Pietrusza, David (2018). TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
 * O'Gara, Gordon Carpenter. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modern Navy. (Princeton UP, 1943). online
 * Oyos, Matthew M. In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military (2018) online review
 * Pietrusza, David (2018). TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
 * Pietrusza, David (2018). TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy


 * Ricard, Serge. (2010) “An Atlantic Triangle in the 1900s: Theodore Roosevelt’s ‘Special Relationships’ with France and Britain.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8#3 (2010): 202–12.


 * Ricard, Serge, ed. A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), chapters by Lloyd Ambrosius, Douglas Eden, Carl Cavanaugh Hodge, J. Simon Rofe, and William Tilchin


 * Thompson, John M. Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of US Foreign Policy (Oxford UP, 2019).
 * . 196 pp.
 * Turk, Richard W. The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1987) online review
 * Thompson, John M. Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of US Foreign Policy (Oxford UP, 2019).
 * . 196 pp.
 * Turk, Richard W. The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1987) online review
 * . 196 pp.
 * Turk, Richard W. The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1987) online review


 * Weisbrode K. "Roosevelt's Man in Europe" Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2016) 15#1:45-59. doi:10.1017/S1537781415000602 on Lewis Einstein


 * Wimmel, Kenneth. Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet: American Seapower Comes of Age (Potomac Books, 1998), popular history

Historiography and memory

 * Bakari, Mohamed El-Kamel. "Mapping the 'Anthropocentric-ecocentric'Dualism in the History of American Presidency: The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent." Journal of Studies in Social Sciences 14, no. 2 (2016).
 * Cullinane, M. Patrick, ed. Remembering Theodore Roosevelt: Reminiscences of his Contemporaries (2021) excerpt
 * Cullinane, M. Patrick. “The Memory of Theodore Roosevelt through Motion Pictures” in A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, ed. Serge Ricard (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), 502–520.
 * Cunliffe, Marcus. "Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States 1901–1908" History Today (Sept 1955) 4#9 pp. 592–601, online.
 * Gable, John. “The Man in the Arena of History: The Historiography of Theodore Roosevelt” in Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American, eds. Natalie Naylor, Douglas Brinkley and John Gable (Interlaken, NY: Hearts of the Lakes, 1992), 613–643.
 * Hull, Katy. "Hero, Champion of Social Justice, Benign Friend: Theodore Roosevelt in American Memory." European journal of American studies 13.13-2 (2018). online
 * Ricard, Serge. "The State of Theodore Roosevelt Studies" H-Diplo Essay No. 116 24 October 2014 online
 * , excerpt and text search, 28 new essays by scholars; focus on historiography.
 * Hull, Katy. "Hero, Champion of Social Justice, Benign Friend: Theodore Roosevelt in American Memory." European journal of American studies 13.13-2 (2018). online
 * Ricard, Serge. "The State of Theodore Roosevelt Studies" H-Diplo Essay No. 116 24 October 2014 online
 * , excerpt and text search, 28 new essays by scholars; focus on historiography.


 * West, Mark I. Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) online.


 * Wetzel, Benjamin J. "Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–1918." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 22.2 (2023): 184-203.