Theodore Roosevelt

by Godfrey Rathbone Benson

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232 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1923

About the author

Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood (6 November 1864 – 3 February 1945) was a British author, academic, Liberal politician and philanthropist.
Benson was born in Alresford, Hampshire, the son of William Benson, a barrister, and Elizabeth Soulsby Smith. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford. He graduated in 1887, and would later become a philosophy lecturer at Balliol. He was involved in politics and represented Woodstock in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1895 and served as Mayor of Lichfield between 1909 and 1911. In the latter year Benson was raised to the peerage as Baron Charnwood, of Castle Donington in the County of Leicester.
Lord Charnwood was the author of many works. These include Abraham Lincoln, which he published in 1916 as an accurate biography, and Theodore Roosevelt in 1923, another historical biography. He was also involved in charitable work with the deaf and disabled, becoming the first President of the National Institute for the Deaf from 1924 until 1935.

Reviews

[Priyanka Pathak · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just finished the biography of Roosevelt. It is a riveting account of an American statesman and Noble peace prize winner, who became the youngest man to assume the U.S. presidency at the age of forty two.

[AbZeroNow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good biography on Theodore Roosevelt written for British audience. Published in 1923, only four years after Roosevelt's death, it paints an interesting picture of the 26th President who was a macho man, an avid reader of prose & poetry, and a committed conservationist. Roosevelt did have some colonialist attitudes(as seen in regards to Egypt, which was a British protectorate) but he was also committed to fighting corruption & overreach from corporations. Was a good read.