Robert Wells Walker was born and raised in the small city of Florence, Alabama. After attending the local public schools, a BS degree from the University of Alabama and a two-year stint as a lieutenant in the Army preceded his admission to Law School at Emory University. After earning an LLB degree and passing both the Alabama and Georgia bar exams, he returned to Florence, where he practiced law and raised cattle for the next 36 years. Now retired from law, he still has cattle and cherishes his time spent with his children and grandson. Other pleasures include playing duplicate bridge and fishing in the beautiful Tennessee River.

Robert Walker has written the most sympathetic and first full scale biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. since the publication of his wife s autobiography, Day Before Yesterday, fifty years ago. Utilizing the letters of the Roosevelt family as well as TRJr s military records in both World Wars courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act, Walker documents TRJr s courage and fortitude in combat at such a high level that even his father would have envied. Like the former President, TRJr was also a geographical explorer, a collector of rare animals, and a big game hunter. Politics was almost an afterthought. Had the depression not come full force in the 1930s, His Namesake might have become President instead of his fifth cousin. – Larry Madaras, author of “The Public Career of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. “ PhD. Thesis, New York University, 1964.