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Signed book: American Statesmen: Thomas Hart Benton by Theodore Roosevelt. Later printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. Hardcover, 5 x 7, 372 pages. Signed on the torn first free end page in bold ink, "With greetings and good wishes from Theodore Roosevelt." Inscribed in another hand on the half-title page, "To Mrs. L. J. Worley, grandaughter of Thos. H. Benton, from Her Friends, The Kirk's," with another inscription to the front pastedown. Autographic condition: very good to fine, with toning and a rusty paperclip impression to the torn signed page. Book condition: VG-/None, with wear to spine ends, paper cracked at hinges, and aforementioned loss to the first free end page.
Theodore Roosevelt was a prolific author and, in fact, had first come to national prominence as a serious historian with his seminal work The Naval War of 1812, published in 1882. His biographical study of Thomas Hart Benton, the 19th-century senator from Missouri, portrays the statesman as a symbol of the American frontier spirit—bold, independent, and deeply committed to westward expansion. The book highlights Benton’s influence on U.S. politics and territorial growth, reflecting Roosevelt’s own admiration for rugged individualism and national progress.
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