Theodore Roosevelt's Books & Writings

He Lived the Adventures First. Then He Wrote Them Down.

Theodore Roosevelt seated at a desk writing, with papers spread out before him
The Autobiography

His Life, In His Own Words

Written in 1913, after the presidency and an African safari, Roosevelt’s account of his own crowded life looks back with the perspective of a man in his early fifties.

Interior of Theodore Roosevelt's study at Sagamore Hill, with his desk, chairs, and shelves of books
The Complete List

Every Book He Published

From The Naval War of 1812, written while he was still a state legislator, to the essays of his final years—a decade-by-decade guide to Roosevelt’s published books.

Theodore Roosevelt seated in a camp chair reading at the entrance of a tent
TR the Reader

A Photographic Memory

Roosevelt read everywhere—in the library at Sagamore Hill, in a camp chair outside his tent—and could recall what he read in remarkable detail years later.