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In many senses, Pringle was ahead of his time. Prior to US entry in World War II, he urged intervention on the Allied side. That, like many of
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Pringle was a teacher of journalism at
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was not seriously challenged for twenty-five years.... Pringle's biography of Taft was a more balanced and thoughtful piece of work than the
Roosevelt study. He had unlimited access to the large collection of Taft papers. Moreover, he discovered in Taft a "tortured soul" whose life could best be
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Pringle met Helena
Huntington Smith in New York and later married her in 1926. In 1919, they had a son named Geoffrey who died in middle age due to severe brain damage. In 1932, their daughter Margot was born, and then their second son Robert in 1936. During
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Pringle was overtaken by disease later in life. His last work was a history of the
Secondary Education Board, which he worked on with Katharine in order to attempt to improve segregated public schools in the American South. It was funded by the
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Theodore Roosevelt of later years was the most adolescent of men....Failure to receive the Medal of Honor for his exploits had been a grief as real as any of those which swamp childhood in despair. "You must always remember," wrote
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understood from the inside rather than from the outside. This offered a more serious challenge to the biographer than the chiefly visible exploits of Teddy
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