Letters to His Children
1919
Letters to His Children
1919
The most virile president in American history reveals something surprising in these pages: a father so tender he could make a granite quarry weep. Spanning two decades, these letters to Theodore Roosevelt's children move from the Cuban battlefields of the Spanish-American War to the Christmas chaos of the White House, from whistle-stop campaign tours to lazy afternoons observing wildlife. What emerges is a man who wrote to his children as though they were his closest friends, sharing jokes about pillow fights, dispatches from the prairie, and small heartbreaks with equal openness. He instructs them on hunting and history, on character and courage, on the beauty of a well-lived day. The letters capture Roosevelt's legendary energy refracted through domestic life, revealing that the same man who charged up San Juan Hill could be brought low by a daughter's homesickness or a son's first failure. For anyone who has ever wanted to know what made America's most expansive president human, these pages offer an answer that is funny, wise, and achingly intimate.
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“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading them as a steady thing. Now and then there is a powerful but sad story which really is interesting and which really does good; but normally the books which do good and the books which healthy people find interesting are those which are not in the least of the sugar-candy variety, but which, while portraying foulness and suffering when they must be portrayed, yet have a joyous as well as a noble side.””
— Theodore Roosevelt
“It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.””
— Theodore Roosevelt
“There! you will think this a dreadfully preaching letter! I suppose I have a natural tendency to preach just at present because I am overwhelmed with my work.””
— Theodore Roosevelt
“That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.””
— Theodore Roosevelt
“I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.””
— Theodore Roosevelt
“You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.””
— Theodore Roosevelt
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