A warm, poignant picture of the relationship between Theodore
Roosevelt and his six remarkable children, based on previously
unpublished family letters, papers, and interviews. Renehan (John
Burroughs: An American Naturalist, 1992) finds that all the
children of T.R., especially his four sons, grew up in the heady
light of their father's dashing charge up San Juan Ridge at
Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War: The young
Roosevelts were taught to fight for an honorable cause with a great
sense of duty; boys and girls alike "absorbed or inherited his
reckless, all-or-nothing approach to hazards." Ethel, a daughter
who observed the pain of battle while serving in a Paris military
hospital, felt that the family's happiness at Sagamore Hill in
Oyster Bay, Long Island, would be offset by their sad (if heroic)
experiences during the Great War. The two oldest boys, Theodore
Jr., and Archie, were indeed both seriously wounded; Quentin, the
baby of the family, would be killed in aerial combat. T.R.'s
martial, patriotic spirit undeniably lived on in his children,
though he was saddened by the simultaneous deaths of his wife,
Alice, and of his mother. He was never the same after the demise of
Quentin. Even so, his equally beloved second wife, Edith, sustained
him in his last illness. Renehan's research leaves us with the
portrait of a dearly loved father and grandfather who doted on his
children without spoiling them and became an unforgettable role
model. A postscript: Both Ted Jr., and Kermit died in uniform in
WWII. Ted Jr. won the Medal of Honor in Normandy for leading his
men ashore. An unusual view of the human side of an extraordinary
public figure. (Kirkus Reviews)
The Lion's Pride is the first book to tell the full story of Theodore Roosevelt and his family in World War I. It is both a poignant group biography and an insightful study of the Rooseveltian notion of noblesse oblige.
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