Serge Ricard is Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, and editor of the Companion to Theodore Roosevelt (2011). He is a member of the TRA advisory board and an Honorary Roosevelt Fellow at the Middelburg Roosevelt Center, The Netherlands.
All students of the 26th presidency have noted Theodore Roosevelt’s immense culture and voracious reading. He was indeed a “literary fellow,” to use Katherine Joslin’s phrase in her recent Eccles Cent ...