T.R.; The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and His Influence on Our Times

New York: Reynal & Company, 1963. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. [6], 346 pages. Name in ink inside front cover. Bookseller stamp inside front cover. Discoloration on fep. DJ worn and torn. Illustrations. T.R.--A Chronology. Selected Bibliography. Index. Noel Fairchild Busch was an author and Life magazine correspondent who reported extensively on World War II and its aftermath. During the war, he reported for Life from such countries as Argentina, South Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Britain, Yugoslavia and Japan. A report on the United States occupation of Japan under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, for Life's issue of Dec. 2, 1946, led to one of his many books -''Fallen Sun,'' published in 1948. His other books about Japan were ''Two Minutes to Noon,'' an account of the 1923 Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake and fire, and ''A Concise History of Japan.'' Mr. Busch began his association with the Time-Life publications in 1927 when he left Princeton University in his junior year to join Time magazine as an associate editor at the invitation of his cousin, Briton Hadden, who with Henry R. Luce had founded Time in 1923. Mr. Busch left Life in 1952 to become the representative of the Asia Foundation in Tokyo and Bangkok, Thailand, and was special assistant to the foundation's president in 1958 and 1959. He became a staff writer for Reader's Digest in 1959 and retired in 1976. Among his books were ''My Unconsidered Judgment,'' his reminiscences about his roaming Life assignments; ''What Manner of Man,'' a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt; ''Briton Hadden: His Life and Time,'' a biography, and ''T.R., The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and His influence on Our Times.'' Derived from a Kirkus review: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and His Influence in Our Times "is one more of those tantalizing historical conjectures upon which it may be permissible to speculate". Busch contributes a further explanation of and eulogy to Theodore Roosevelt. It does not tell everything in the Great Man's life; it assembles the facts of a notable career so that readers can form one's own opinion. The main point in Mr. Busch's biography is that T.R. had a strenuously clear intelligence and grasp of particulars right to the end. From what is presented here, T.R. certainly did. He emerges as one of the most superior men who ever lived.