Theodore Roosevelt, A Biography

Professor Theodore A . Burton

T. A. Burton (denoted by T. A. throughout this paper) was born on September 7, 1935 on a farm in Kansas, the fifth child of seven in the family. It was a peak of the Great Depression and when the dust storms wrecked havoc on the Mid-Western United States. Entire buildings were buried in the dust. The economy was so poor that farmers turned their livestock loose and left the area. At the age of ...

Walter Reed. A biography

WILLIAM B. BEAN, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95. I enjoyed reading Dr Bean's life of Walter Reed. Its style and content fall somewhere between the writings of Paul de Kruif and Gwyn Macfarlane's life of Howard Florey. In fact, there are striking resemblances to Macfarlane's book, as the author has been to enormous trouble...

Harvey Cushing, A Biography

The physician of today may be somewhat bewildered in the face of the vast current literature on penicillin and the conflicting views on methods of administration, dosages, and indications. Dr. Fleming and his 28 associates have now provided a most authoritative and yet practical guide-book concerning the place of this agent in medicine. No one will deny that much remains to be learned of penici...

Theodore William Richards

Theodore Xenophon Barber.