Maybe it’s because we’re in an election year that I’ve had a renewed interest in those who have occupied the Oval Office. For a while I took a crack at Scott McClellan’s book, “What Happened,” on his ...

THIS is a ‘personal' rather than an ‘intimate’ biography, and the reader learns almost as much of Mr. Thayer’s views on recent public questions as of Roosevelt’s creed and conduct. The earlier ...

The Rough Riders: Raising the regiment -- To Cuba -- General Young's fight at Las Guasimas -- The cavalry at Santiago -- In the trenches -- The return home -- Muster-out roll -- Colonel Roosevelt's ...

Edmund Morris, the famed author who wrote acclaimed presidential biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, died Friday in Danbury, Connecticut, according to The New York Times. The cause of ...

MEDORA, N.D. — Theodore Roosevelt tangled with a couple of mean broncos — one nicknamed “the Devil,” the other “Man Killer” — as a tenderfoot rancher wrangling alongside hardened cowboys in the Little ...

At college in the mid-1960s I minored in history. Ever since, as time permits, my reading often includes biographies and occasionally autobiographies. As I am a slow reader sometimes a lengthy book ...