Theodore Roosevelt:
A Selected Annotated Bibliography

by Dr. John Allen Gable, Ph.D.

• Works, Letters, and Papers of Theodore Roosevelt

~ a chronological listing of books by TR
~ published collections of works of TR

• Biographies and Biographical Profiles
• Monographs and Other Works on Theodore Roosevelt
• Bibliographical Aids

The Works, Letters and Papers of Theodore Roosevelt

Chronological listing of books by Theodore Roosevelt

1882

The Naval War of 1812

1885

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman

1887

Thomas Hart Benton

1888

Essays on Practical Politics

Gouverneur Morris

Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail

1889-

1896

The Winning of the West, 4 vols. (vol. 1 and vol. 2, 1889; vol. 3, 1894; vol. 4, 1896)

1891

New York

1893

The Wilderness Hunter

1895

Hero Tales from American History, with Henry Cabot Lodge

1897

American Ideals

Some American Game

1899

The Rough Riders

1900

The Strenuous Life

Oliver Cromwell

1905

Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

1907

Good Hunting

1909

Outlook Editorials

1910

African and European Addresses

African Game Trails

American Problems

The New Nationalism

1912

The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood

Realizable Ideals

1913

Autobiography

History as Literature and Other Essays

Progressive Principles

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

1914

Life-Histories of African Game Animals, 2 vols., co-author with Edmund Heller

1915

America and the World War

1916

Fear God and Take Your Own Part

A Book Lover's Holiday in the Open

1917

The Foes of Our Own Household

National Strength and International Duty

1918

The Great Adventure

Note: Theodore Roosevelt was co-editor with George Bird Grinnell and contributed to three books published by the Boone and Crockett Club: American Big-Game (1893), Hunting in Many Lands (1895), and Trail and Campfire (1897). TR, T. S. Van Dyke, D. G. Elliot, and A. J. Stone were the contributors to the The Deer Family (1902).

Published collections of Theodore Roosevelt's works, letters, papers, writings

Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, ed. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. Letters from 1898-1911.

Griffith, William, ed. The Roosevelt Policy. 3 vols. New York: The Current Literature Publishing Company, 1919. Collection of TR's speeches, state papers, and articles which includes some World War I speeches not available in other collections.

Hagedorn, Hermann, ed. Memorial Edition: Works of Theodore Roosevelt. 24 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1923-1926. Most complete edition of TR's books, essays, state papers, and other writings, supplants the Sagamore, Elkhorn, Allegheny, and other editions of Roosevelt's collected works published in his lifetime. Introductions and bibliographical notes with each volume.

--------------, National Edition: Works of Theodore Roosevelt. 20 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Shorter version of Memorial Edition listed above.

Hart, Albert Bushnell, and Herbert Ronald Ferleger, eds. Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. 1941. 2d ed., edited by John Allen Gable. Oyster Bay, NY: Theodore Roosevelt Association and Meckler, 1989. Quotations from TR listed topically; revised edition includes annotated bibliography, introduction, chronology of TR's life, history of Theodore Roosevelt Association.

Irwin, Will, ed. Letters to Kermit from Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1908. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Letters from TR to his son Kermit Roosevelt.

Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt cowles, 1870-1918. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Letters from TR to his sister Mrs. William Sheffield Cowles.

Morison, Elting, John M. Blum, et al., eds. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt. 8 vols.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951-1954. The most complete published collection of letters by TR, includes approximately 6,500 letters; appendices with essays by John M. Blum, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.; superb footnotes and indexes; chronology of TR's daily activities, 1898-1919, in vols. 2, 4, 6, 8.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Presidential Addresses and State Papers and European Addresses. 8 vols. Homeward Bound Edition. New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1910. Includes almost every speech given by Roosevelt in 1901-1910, many not found in any other collection.

-----------. Theodore Roosevelt's Diaries of Boyhood and Youth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Diaries from 1868 through 1877.

Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1884-1918. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Letters between TR and his close friend Lodge with some passages deleted by Senator Lodge.

Stout, Ralph, ed. Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-Time Editorials by TheodoreRoosevelt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. World War I newspaper articles written by TR for the Kansas City Star and syndicated.