Boston Globe

A Triumvirate for Change, David M. Shribman

May 6, 2001

They were bred to entertain society, not to lead it, surely not to change it. They were reared as aristocrats, and yet they had an ear for the yearning of the merest inhabitant of remote farms and teeming urban centers. They were patricians, trained to be cultured, not to change the culture. They were expected to have servants, not to serve others. They were known in their time, as in ours, by their first names or initials...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BOOKS: How flawed-yet-noble Roosevelts changed America, Bruce Clayton

April 1, 2001

The verdict: Biographical history at its best...

Houston Chronicle

Change from the top: Three Roosevelts repudiate patrician world in favor of national reform, Malinda Nash

March 3, 2001

When the 20th century began in America, women could not vote, labor had low visibility, and poor people did without adequate food and medicine. The need for reform set the tone for the first half of the century..

Publishers Weekly

January 15, 2001

As president, Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after the man he admired the most - his father, who believed in moral justice - and after the man his father admired the most - President Lincoln, for his ability to be both a radical reformer and a shrewdly conservative politician..