Product Description

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. No father and mother can hope to escape sorrow and anxiety, and there are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living. --Theodore Roosevelt, from his autobiography.

Following the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt charged into the limelight and the twentieth century as the 26th president of the United States. Charismatic, fiercely energetic, and adored by Americans everywhere, TR would champion a host of causes to bring the nation into the new century brimming with optimism and onto the international scene as a world power.

From his earliest days as a youth in New York City to his declining years during World War I, Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt captures the greatest exploits of one of the nation s greatest Americans. As soldier and explorer, as conservationist and big game hunter, as governor, vice-president, and president, as scientist and writer, and as family man, TR s life in pictures blazes a path sure to enthrall every reader, from the student of history to the history buff.

TR became and remains an American icon. The hundreds of photographs in Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt, many of them rare and unusual, and all published in striking black and white, help Americans a hundred years later to understand why.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49840 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 206 pages

Review
Anyone who is interested in this dynamic president should read 'Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt' with text and captions by Stacy A. Cordery. The purpose of this photographic book is to inspire , provide perspective and evoke insight on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt. --Las Cruces Sun-News

Anyone who is interested in this dynamic president should read 'Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt' with text and captions by Stacy A. Cordery. The purpose of this photographic book is to inspire , provide perspective and evoke insight on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt. --Las Cruces Sun-News

Turner Publishing has produced a well-conceived, handsome, historically valuable volume of black and white photographs focused on the sixty years of the life of Theodore Roosevelt…It is due to the narrative provided by Stacy A. Cordery that this book merits being labeled as an important work of history. --Theodore Roosevelt Association

With informative captions by Stacy A. Cordery, 'Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt' is a fittingly pictorial biographic presentation of a remarkable man whose political policies, ideas, and influence are still resonating in American culture today. 'Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt' is an impressive body of work and a strongly recommended addition to academic and community library reference collections in the areas of 20th century American History, Photography, and Biography. --Midwest Book Review

From his earliest days as a youth in New York City to his declining years during World War I, Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt captures the greatest exploits of one of the nation's greatest Americans. As soldier and explorer, as conservationist and big game hunter, as governor, vice-president, and president, as scientist and writer, and as family man, TR's life in pictures blazes a path sure to enthrall every reader, from the student of history to the history buff. --congressional-elections.blogspot

About the Author
Stacy A. Cordery is the author of Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker (Viking, 2007) and Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern (Thompson/Wadsworth, 2003). Since 2001 she has been the web bibliographer for the National First Ladies Library in Canton, Ohio. Cordery earned her doctorate in history at the University of Texas. She is a professor of history at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, where she has earned several teaching awards.

Customer Reviews

Gives us a very nice visual biography of TR's life
TR has become one of the more popular historic Presidents and many books have been written about his life and his work. The Library of America has a collection of his books and another of his letters. I recommend both heartily. And I also encourage you to add to your understanding of the life of Theodore Roosevelt with this collection of a couple hundred photographs taken from all periods of his life. A few of them you will have seen in the popular images and in the biographies, but most you will not have seen unless you are a TR specialist.

This book was put together by Stacy A. Cordery who is a scholar on TR and his daughter, Alice. She has written an excellent foreword and captions for the pictures. Cordery lets the pictures do most of the work, but adds just the right touch of context to help us understand better what we are looking at. She also notes that we have so many of these helpful photos because TR was so adept at using the press and getting them to help him get the publicity he wanted.

While the photo is printed to very high quality standards, the pictures come from a time when the skill of the photographer mattered a great deal to the final product, so you will notice some variance in the texture of the photos. They are not because of the publisher. And the large format allows us to study the photos very closely. Get out a magnifying glass and see the detail you can pick up. It really is quite cool.

A very nice book.

An impressive body of work
Upon the unexpected assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt found himself being sworn in as the 26th President of the United States and went on to become one of the most dynamic, charismatic, energetic, and popular president is American political history. "Historic Photos Of Theodore Roosevelt" is a compendium of period black-and-white photos of TR visually documenting his life and exploits as a soldier and explorer, a conservationist and big game hunter, a scientist and writer, a family man, and his time as the governor of New York, his brief term as a vice-president, and as a president. With informative captions given them by Stacy A. Cordery (web bibliographer for the National First Ladies Library in Canton, Ohio) "Historic Photos Of Theodore Roosevelt" is a fittingly pictorial biographic presentation of a remarkable man whose political policies, ideas, and influence are still resonating in American culture today. "Historic Photos Of Theodore Roosevelt" is an impressive body of work and a strongly recommended addition to academic and community library reference collections in the areas of 20th Century American History, Photography, and Biography.

I love this book, and cannot recommend it enough!
I have come to expect excellence when I open one of Turner Publishing's Historic Photos book...and this book did not let me down! The book contains some 200 pages filled with high-quality black-and-white pictures of President Theodore Roosevelt. The pictures were collected by a recognized Theodore Roosevelt expert, who has already written two other books - one on Theodore and one on his daughter, Alice.

Overall, I found this to be a great book, filled with many interesting pictures, each one with an informative caption. If you want to know about the great man, then this is a very good book for giving you a visual history of his life. Indeed, if you are already a TR fan, as I am, then you will love seeing him throughout his life.

I love this book, and cannot recommend it enough!

[A crusading governor, a noted hunter and outdoorsperson, thought by some to be too young and inexperienced to be vice-president of the United States - will we ever see his like again?]