The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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"But thouuMi Theodore Roosevelt's name is a Holland one,
he is almost in equal parts Dutch, French, Irish and Scotch.
These commingled streams of blood show in his character,
for, as occasion calls for it, he manifests the Dutch phlegm,
the Scotch pertinacity, the French chivalry, and the true Irish
wit." His father was Theodore Roosevelt of New York City,
and his mother Martha Bulloch of Roswell, Georgia.
AN EXPONENT OF PRACTICAL QUALITIES
Theodore Roosevelt is an example of a type of American
justifying the experiment of democratic government on a
large scale. He is a man of good family and private fortune,
well educated and of high character, who has devoted his
abilities and energies to practical politics, and has risen
steadily as a public servant by reason of his probity, intelli-
gence, and force.
HAS STUDIED THE COUNTRY
His keen interest in his country has led him to make fre-
quent hunting trips in the West, where he owns a ranch, and
has made himself an authority on hunting; and he has studied
the conditions of that civilization, and then written books con-
cerning it. This interest in the West has extended to its his-
tory, and has produced a capital historical survey of the
stirring tlramatic development of the Western States; much
of the material upon which the account is based being drawn
first from Government archives, and involving painstaking,
independent labor. Mr. Roosevelt's other writings— histori-
cal, biographical, or of the lighter essay sort—are robustly
American in spirit, and enjoyable in point of style. He is a
vigorous personality, whether in life or literature.