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...ROOSEVELT FAMILY OF SAGAMORE HILL (435 pp.)-Hermann Hagedorn-Macmillan...
...Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for August, is an album of Teddy and family from the turn of the century through World War I. Author Hermann Hagedorn, a former Harvard English instructor who has written or edited six previous books on T.R. (The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands), knew and loved the family well. His camera is sometimes less than candid, but even when freckles and awkward angles are airbrushed out, his snapshots are warm, intimate closeups that usually show what the outsider wants...
...Roosevelt Collections came to Widener through the efforts of Hermann Hagedorn '07, a personal friend of Roosevelt and director and secretary of the Memorial Association since its formation. From 1922 until 1943, the collection had been installed in a building next door to Roosevelt House, 28 East 20th Street, in New York City. With the coming of World War Two, wartime inflation and the death of many members led the association to donate the collection to the University. But it came to Widener only after strong competition from William J. Crawford of Cleveland, who at the time owned the largest...
...this reason, the library staff has had to resort to expedients in handling the collection. Maintenance as a separate library-within-a-library has proved inefficient, but the association has successfully opposed any effort to integrate the collection with the rest of the American History holdings, and led by Hagedorn, has campaigned for a separate library similar to Widener's Classics Library...
...known as "the great man's great man." His audience has never been large; but now, at the end of his life, it may at last be dramatically expanding. Two Schweitzer biographies have already appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George Seaver, Albert Schweitzer, the Man and His Mind (Harper; $3.75). Published last fortnight was a third book: Albert Schweitzer, an Anthology, edited by Charles R. Joy (Beacon Press & Harper...