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INTRODUCTION

TO THE

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

GUBERNATORIAL CENTENNIAL

CD-ROM BASED WEB BOOK

The Theodore Roosevelt Association, in cooperation with New

York State’s Temporary Commission to Commemorate the Centennial of

the Governorship of Theodore Roosevelt, has published this CD-ROM to

mark the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s term as Governor of

New York, from December 31 1898 until December 31, 1900, and to spread

knowledge about TR’s career and beliefs.

This edition includes the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, along

with 2 volumes of TR’s gubernatorial papers, Public Papers of Theodore

Roosevelt, Governor, 1899 and Public Papers of Theodore Roosevelt,

Governor, 1900, important works in understanding not only TR’s years as

Governor of New York but also his entire career and his philosophy of life

and government.

The Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, edited by Albert Bushnell

Hart and Herbert Ronald Ferleger, was first published in 1941, and then

republished in 1989 in a new edition with introduction, bibliography, and

TR chronology. The TR Cyclopedia is now out of print. The Theodore

Roosevelt Cyclopedia gives Roosevelt’s thoughts and opinions, in his own

words, alphabetically by subject, from “Abbey Theatre” to “Youth.” This

reference book contains well over 4000 quotations. The material added for

the 1989 edition includes an introduction explaining the origins and contents

of the TR Cyclopedia; an annotated bibliography listing principal

biographies, monographs, published collections of TR’s works and letters,

and bibliographical guides and catalogues (as of 1989); and a chronology of

TR’s life. A new supplement of TR quotations has been compiled for this

CD-ROM.