“A wonderful readable book about a wonderful personality.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Je 12 ’20 450w
“The volume is a racy, authentic, well-considered work, but instead of revealing the inner springs of motive, instead of a transvaluation of strenuous values, it merely adds to the sum total of current impressions.” L. B.
+ Freeman 2:118 O 13 ’20 280w
“Better than any photograph or any biography I know, they give you the feeling of having talked with the man in the flesh.”
+ Ind 104:242 N 13 ’20 110w
“It is in all respects one of the best Roosevelt books we have ever seen, and in some respects the best.”
+ N Y Times p19 Ag 15 ’20 1700w
“It is all vastly entertaining, though one wonders whether the obligation of discretion which private conversation implies has not in certain cases been prematurely sacrificed in the interest of impartial history.”
+ Outlook 126:292 O 13 ’20 580w