Editing Theodore Roosevelt (section)

==Writer==
{{main|Theodore Roosevelt bibliography}}
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Roosevelt was a prolific author, writing with passion on subjects ranging from foreign policy to the importance of the national park system. Roosevelt was also an avid reader of poetry. Poet [[Robert Frost]] said that Roosevelt "was our kind. He quoted poetry to me. He knew poetry."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.igougo.com/review-r1150273-Light_gone_out_-_TR_at_the_Library_of_Congress.html |title= "Light gone out" – TR at the Library of Congress – Jefferson's Legacy: The Library of Congress Review |publisher= IgoUgo |access-date= October 31, 2011 |archive-date= April 6, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120406202634/http://www.igougo.com/review-r1150273-Light_gone_out_-_TR_at_the_Library_of_Congress.html |url-status= live }}</ref>

As an editor of ''[[The Outlook (New York City)|The Outlook]]'', Roosevelt had weekly access to a large, educated national audience. In all, Roosevelt wrote about 18 books (each in several editions), including his autobiography,<ref>{{Cite book | last = Roosevelt | first = Theodore | author-link = Theodore Roosevelt | title = An Autobiography | publisher = Echo Library | year = 2006 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VZi1sGSjFfEC | isbn = 978-1-4068-0155-2 | access-date = September 5, 2020 | archive-date = January 28, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210128003931/https://books.google.com/books?id=VZi1sGSjFfEC | url-status = live }}</ref> ''The Rough Riders'',<ref>{{Cite book | last = Roosevelt | first = Theodore | author-link = Theodore Roosevelt | title = The Rough Riders | publisher = The Review of Reviews Company | year = 1904 | url = https://archive.org/details/roughriders00roos}}</ref> ''History of the Naval War of 1812'',<ref>{{Cite book | last = Roosevelt | first = Theodore | author-link = Theodore Roosevelt | title = The Naval War of 1812 | publisher = G.P. Putnam's Sons | year = 1900 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6xkbAAAAIAAJ | access-date = September 5, 2020 | archive-date = August 14, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210814113845/https://books.google.com/books?id=6xkbAAAAIAAJ | url-status = live }}</ref> and others on subjects such as ranching, explorations, and wildlife. His most ambitious book was the four-volume narrative ''The Winning of the West'', focused on the [[American frontier]] in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Roosevelt said that the American character—indeed a new "American race"—had emerged from the heroic wilderness hunters and Indian fighters, acting on the frontier with little government help.<ref>Richard Slotkin, "Nostalgia and progress: Theodore Roosevelt's myth of the frontier". ''American Quarterly'' (1981) 33#5 pp: 608–637. [http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=div2facpubs&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fq%3D%2527%2527The%2BWinning%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWest%2527%2527%252C%2Bfrontier%2BRoosevelt%2B%2B%2522American%2Brace%2522%26btnG%3D%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%252C27#search=%22Winning%20West%2C%20frontier%20Roosevelt%20American%20race%22 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908140330/http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=div2facpubs&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fq%3D%2527%2527The%2BWinning%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWest%2527%2527%252C%2Bfrontier%2BRoosevelt%2B%2B%2522American%2Brace%2522%26btnG%3D%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%252C27#search=%22Winning%20West%2C%20frontier%20Roosevelt%20American%20race%22 |date=September 8, 2014 }}</ref>

In 1905, Roosevelt became embroiled in a widely publicized literary debate known as the [[nature fakers controversy]]. A few years earlier, naturalist [[John Burroughs]] had published an article entitled "Real and Sham Natural History" in the ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'', attacking popular writers of the day such as [[Ernest Thompson Seton]], [[Charles G. D. Roberts]], and [[William J. Long]] for their fantastical representations of wildlife. Roosevelt agreed with Burroughs's criticisms and published several essays denouncing the booming genre of "naturalistic" animal stories as "yellow journalism of the woods". It was the President himself who popularized the negative term "nature faker" to describe writers who depicted their animal characters with excessive anthropomorphism.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Carson | first = Gerald | date = February 1971 | url = http://www.americanheritage.com/content/tr-and-%E2%80%9Cnature-fakers%E2%80%9D | title = Roosevelt and the 'nature fakers' | newspaper = American Heritage Magazine | volume = 22 | issue = 2 | access-date = January 5, 2013 | archive-date = January 11, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130111125718/http://www.americanheritage.com/content/tr-and-%E2%80%9Cnature-fakers%E2%80%9D | url-status = live }}</ref>