+ − Nation 112:18 Ja 5 ’21 2500w
“A difficult task has been accomplished triumphantly, and the result is a portrait of Roosevelt by himself, set in an editorial frame which is artistically unobstructive. Mr Bishop has given us a work which does for one president of the United States what was done for an earlier president by the publication of Grant’s ‘Personal memoirs.’ And neither of these great men would object to the comparison.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times p4 O 3 ’20 2300w
“There are a few little errors, nothing of consequence. But the book is undoubtedly partisan; which does not prevent it from being a thoroughly good and complete biography.” C: W. Thompson
+ − N Y Times p5 O 3 ’20 3450w
“It is a work after Roosevelt’s own heart, the sort of record that he himself would have endorsed just as it stands, showing him in the full strength and weakness of his very human quality.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 98:1196 O 16 ’20 480w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:314 O 13 ’20 340w
“These two volumes, as they stand, will serve not only for the present time but for future generations.”