Books Mentioned in This Episode

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Episode: Theodore Roosevelt's Great-Great Grandson Kermit Roosevelt III On The Collapse Of Honor

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

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"We did have a bunch of books about Theodore Roosevelt lying around, probably more than the ordinary family did, so I read those because I just read every book in the house when I was growing up."
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Edith Kermit Roosevelt

by Sylvia Morris

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"That's the letter I was telling you about why I was so struck by it; I wrote about it in my courage book."
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The Myth of Judicial Activism

by Kermit Roosevelt

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"There’s a book called The Myth of Judicial Activism, which is about Supreme Court decisions trying to decide whether the Supreme Court is abusing its power."
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Bury the Chains

by Adam Hochschild

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"As he's riding away, Adam Hild writes about this in 'Bury the Chains', but he has this sort of Road to Damascus moment on the road."
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A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools

by Albion Winegar Tourgée

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"Have you read it's a novel from around that period called The Fool's Errand?"
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All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

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"Oh yeah, All the King's Men."
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The Claim of Reason

by Stanley Cavell

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"Um, and I think actually Stanley Cavell, a Harvard philosopher, wrote something very much like that in 'The Claim of Reason', but I don't think that it went that far outside of academic circles."