| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness. By Joshua David Hawley. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xviii, 318 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-12010-3.)
Quoting Henry Adams's quip that Theodore Roosevelt was "pure act," Joshua David Hawley suggests that scholars have not given due attention to Roosevelt's political thought: "It is time," he proclaims, "that Roosevelt the thinker received his due" (p. xvii). While it may be true that the image of Roosevelt the Rough Rider dominates the public imagination and that some biographers have given inadequate attention to his intellectual side, scholars from his era to ours have written extensively on Roosevelt's thinking as inscribed in his more than fifty books and thousands of letters.	1
As the subtitle suggests, Hawley's central argument is that for Roosevelt, politics was "about right and wrong, duty and obligation: righteousness" (p. 54). That statement will not surprise any serious student of Roosevelt. Indeed, the sermon-like qualities of many of his writings and speeches are transparent. Hawley contributes to Roosevelt scholarship by attempting to illuminate systematically the development of Roosevelt's political ideology and moral principles, and he brings the tools of a legal scholar to his analysis (he has a J.D. from Yale University).	. . .

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