In the Campaign of 1904

The New York Sun has a review of a new history of TR's early years as a state legislator in Albany, I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt.

Bartleby.com features an extensive online collection of works by and about the 20th century's greatest Republican president.

The campaign sticker comes by way of the Llama Butchers.

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Former US Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.), pictured on the cover of Time in 1967 after becoming the first black since Reconstruction elected to the US Senate, has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Today's Globe ran a wire photo on page 3, but that's it. Brooke once was a figure of pride on the Mass. political scene, a history-maker as the nation's only black senator at the time, and a part of the Frank Sargent-Elliott Richardson-Leverett Saltonstall moderate-to-liberal state GOP pantheon that the old Taylor family-owned Globe quite appreciated. After losing his bid for a third term to Paul Tsongas in '78, in a campaign in which his bitter divorce became news, Brooke moved away and pretty much fell out of the public eye. His appearance at the White House yesterday answers that "Whatever Became Of" question.

And, hey, way to go, Rita Moreno.

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The original Thugs were tame compared to today's Jihadists, as Andrew Sullivan's first and third items indicate.

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Good to see old friend Maureen Mullarkey writing for the New York Sun.