Bibliography of Classical Mythology
This essay first appeared in the September 2023 issue of Choice (volume 61 | issue 1).
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TR’s New York City Knickerbocker family endearingly called the asthmatic future president “Teedie” in his prepubescence. Later, during his political ascendency, the press would jocularly refer to him by the despised nickname “Teddy,” hence the iconic “Teddy” bear. Overridingly—then, as now—the world would also attribute the sobriquet “TR” to the charismatic Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 to January 6, 1919), the first president so familiarly addressed. In attempting to characterize TR’s outsize personality, scholars have also routinely ascribed other epithets to him, such as “conservative elitist,” “progressive reformer,” “cowboy,” “warrior,” etc. For stages of TR’s extremely complicated life—a life lived not at the margins, but centrally…
This essay first appeared in the September 2023 issue of Choice (volume 61 | issue 1).
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This essay first appeared in the August 2023 issue of Choice (volume 60 | issue 12).
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This essay first appeared in the July 2023 issue of Choice (volume 60 | issue 11).
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This essay first appeared in the June 2023 issue of Choice (volume 60 | issue 10).
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