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Theodore Roosevelt

"Government jobs belong to the American people, not politicians and shall be filled only with regard to public service."

Theodore Roosevelt

Related Readings

An American Experience: Theodore Roosevelt. Public Broadcast Systems. 2001.

Biography of An Ideal. U.S. Office of Personnel Management. 2003.

Biography of an Ideal. The U.S. Civil Service Commission. 1974.

Blum, John Morton. The Republican Roosevelt. 1993.

Blum, John Morton. The Progressive Presidents. 1980.

Cooper, John Milton, Jr. The Warrior and the Priest. 1983.

Gable, John Allen, Natalie Naylor and Douglas Brinkley, ed. Theodore Roosevelt: Many Sided American. 1992.

Gable, John Allen Ed. The Man in the Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt. 1991.

Gould, Lewis. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. 1991.

Hagedorn, Hermann, Ed. The Theodore Roosevelt Treasury: A Self-Portrait From His Writings. 1957.

Harbough, William Henry. Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. 1961.

Hart Albert Bushnell, and Herbert Ronald Ferleger, ed. Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. 1989.

Ingraham, Patricia Wallace. The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy (Interpreting American Politics). 1995.

Johnston, William Davison. TR. Champion of the Strenuous Life. 1958.

Jukes, Morris, Sylvia. Edith Kermit Roosevelt. 1980.

Lorant, Stefan. The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. 1959.

McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback. 1981.

Miller, Nathan. Theodore Roosevelt: A Life. 1992.

Morison, Elting E. Ed. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: 1868-1898. 1951.

Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. 1975.

Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. 1979.

Mowry, George E. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt. 1958.

Pringle, Henry F. Theodore Roosevelt. 1956.

Roosevelt, Theodore. An Autobiography. 1925.

Roosevelt, Theodore. "An Object Lesson in Civil Service Reform." The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 67, issue 400 (February 1891).

Roosevelt, Theodore. "The Present Status of Civil Service Reform." The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 75, issue 448 (February 1895).

Roosevelt, Theodore. "Machine Politics in New York" The Century, vol. 33, issue 1 (Nov 1886).

Roosevelt, Theodore. "Political Reform. The Common Sense of Civil Service Reform." The Century, vol. 48, issue 1 (May 1894).

Roosevelt, Theodore. "The Merit System versus the Patronage System." The Century, vol. 39, issue 4 (Feb 1890).

Roosevelt, Theodore. American Ideals. 1897.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Essays in Practical Politics. 1888.

Roosevelt, Theodore. "The President's Policy". The North American Review, vol. 141, issue 347 (October 1885).

Roosevelt, Theodore. "Six Years Of Civil Service Reform". Scribner's Magazine, vol. 18, issue 2 (August 1895).

Rosenbloom, David H. (Ed.) Centenary Issues of the Pendleton Act of 1883: The Problematic Legacy of Civil Service Reform.

Schultz, David A. and Robert Moranto. The Politics of Civil Service Reform (Teaching Texts in Law and Politics, 1). 1998.

Van Riper, Paul P. History of the United States Civil Service. 1958.