The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena.” The Heritage Foundation has been in the arena for many years, fighting many battles, so it’s no surprise that it has attracted many critics as well.

“Most Americans—including scholars—have liked Roosevelt.” So writes David S. Brown in his contrarian biography “In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution.” Mr. Brown notes that ...

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Theodore Roosevelt said, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man ...

MEDORA, North Dakota — Standing here this summer in the Badlands overlooking where the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is under construction, any person curious about the 26th president ...

America’s 26th president forged himself by pitching headlong into conflict, according to this perceptive biography. Historian Brown (A Hell of a Storm) recaps Roosevelt’s combative life starting with ...