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4.44 AVERAGE
4.44 AVERAGE
3.5 rounded up. Thought that it could have been condensed without losing too much, but it was still a well-written book that I learned a ton from. Will definitely pick up the other two books in the trilogy in the future. Teddy was such a fascinating character.
Great. Makes me want to know more about the man. Just as interesting and eclectic a man as I'd expected. Didn't know he had asthma and that was part of the reason(paired with inclination) he was so physical-to combat the asthma.
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Theodore Roosevelt was a man of such vitality that just reading about his life gives you a secondhand high of energy. At the end of this book you'll want to storm a hill and scream at the top of your lungs, "BULLY!"
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This is the first book of Edmund Morris' three-volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt. I have read a couple of other biographies of TR, and knew of this one but resisted picking it up because...well, it's three books! Shame on me for avoiding it. This is an astonishingly good examination of TR's life and experiences. Well-researched, well-written, thorough, and for the most part, dispassionate. Morris is clearly a TR fan, but he is not reluctant to examine TR's weaknesses and faults as well as his strengths, thus humanizing this seemingly superhuman individual. Well done, Mr. Morris!
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Vivid, gripping, erudite, wry, and immediate. You won’t find 780 pages of a carefully researched biography that fly by faster or hold your attention as thrillingly—all the way through the magnificent final scene. The Roosevelt that comes fairly leaping out of this book is all energy and charisma and bravery—a Tasmanian devil made human, a whirling dervish of a frontiersman, sportsman, hunter, Harvard boy, conservationist, amateur boxer, naval strategist, municipal reformer, scholar of French and German, historian of the West, dandy, military hero, hawkish proponent of American force and imperial expansion, and, ultimately, fiercely independent and ambitious politician with a prescient grasp on the threat that the massive concentration of corporate wealth and power posed to the American experiment. An incredible, entertaining, and deeply edifying read.