Nicholas Roosevelt (diplomat)

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Nicholas Roosevelt (June 12, 1893 - February 1982)[1] was an American diplomat and journalist. A member of the Roosevelt family and first-cousin once removed of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, he was born in New York City to James West Roosevelt, a brother of Hilborne Roosevelt, and Laura Henrietta d'Oremieulx.[2] Brought up in Oyster Bay, New York, he graduated from Harvard University in 1914.[3] He was an attaché at the American Embassy in Paris, secretary to the American mission to Spain in 1916 and 17, vice-governor of the Philippine Islands in 1930, and U.S. minister to Hungary from 1930 to 1933.[4] He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a writer for its journal Foreign Affairs,[5] and a foreign correspondent and editorial writer for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune from 1921 to 1946.[6][4] A prolific author, his autobiography, A Front Row Seat (1953), offers a critical view of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a distant cousin, and an inside view of the New York Times.[6] Theodore Roosevelt (1967) drew on Nicholas Roosevelt's unique childhood recollections, his father having been a close friend of Theodore.[7] He lived in Big Sur, California in later life.[4]

[edit] Works

  • The Philippines: A Treasure and a Problem (1926)
  • The Restless Pacific (1928)
  • America and England? (1930)
  • The Townsend Plan: Taxing for Sixty (1936) (with Francis Everett Townsend)
  • A New Birth of Freedom (1938)
  • Wanted: Good Neighbors: The Need for Closer Ties with Latin America (1939)
  • Venezuela's Place in the Sun: Modernizing a Pioneering Country (1940)
  • A Front Row Seat (1953)
  • Creative Cooking (1956)
  • Good Cooking (1959)
  • Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew Him (1967)
  • Conservation: Now or Never (1970)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Social Security Death Index, SSN:084-09-5009.
  2. ^ Whittelsey, Charles B. (1902). The Roosevelt Genealogy, 1649-1902. 
  3. ^ "Nicholas Roosevelt is Dead; Writer and Diplomat Was 88", New York Times, February 17, 1982, p. B6. 
  4. ^ a b c Creative Cooking 1956 Nicholas Roosevelt. Retrieved on 2008-03-15.
  5. ^ Index to Politicians: Roosevelt. The Political Graveyard. Retrieved on 2008-03-15.
  6. ^ a b Price, Warren C. (1999). Literature of Journalism. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816601895. 
  7. ^ "Short Notices", TIME, April 27, 1967. 
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