A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt (Expanded, Annotated)

William Bayard Hale was a controversial American journalist who spent a week at Teddy Roosevelt's White House. In this sympathetic but fascinating look at Theodore Roosevelt at work, we hear him speak on matters great and small in his own words.

Hale describes a typical White House day demonstrating the demands on the president's time and energies. We read Roosevelt talking about Lincoln and Washington. Roosevelt even holds forth on Roosevelt, acknowledging his love of the the most powerful ...