Mr. Hermann Hagedorn has been writing books about Roosevelt for forty years, and his admiration is undimmed by time. The present interesting volume is got up by splicing together bits from Roosevelt’s books and speeches to form a fairly coherent work of politics: a dangerous method, but accurately and painstakingly used by Mr. Hagedorn.
Teddy was a great character, of course; and more, he was one of the most vigorous, learned, and original of our statesmen. Certain resemblances to Sir Winston Churchill scarcely require remarking. Like Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt had a gift for breaking refreshingly through cant and slogan; and many of his forceful declarations ring truer nowadays than anything spoken in 1957 by any leader of party in America.
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