Hagedorn, Hermann
Hagedorn, Hermann( 1882–1964),New York author, known both for his works about his friend Theodore Roosevelt, including a Life (1918), Roosevelt in the Bad Lands (1921), a selection of his speeches, The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt (1923), and The Bugle That Woke America: The Saga of Theodore Roosevelt's Last Battle for His Country (1940), and for his poetry, ranging from Poems and Ballads (1912) to The Bomb That Fell on America (1946), treating the implications of the Hiroshima bombing for Americans, and such novels as The Rough Riders (1927). Other works include a biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson (1938) and The Hyphenated Family (1960), a saga of his own family of German-Americans, appreciative of both cultures.
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