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4.44 AVERAGE
4.44 AVERAGE
The audiobook is great! Not sure I would have made it through this massive book otherwise.
I really enjoyed this biography of Roosevelt's early life until the presidency. Morris is an excellent writer. He does a good job dropping you into the scenes of Roosevelt's life. The book is helped by the varied and interesting life it documents. From life as a cowboy in Dokota, to fighting the saloons of New York City, I never found this book to be boring,
Roosevelt was truly a unique, brilliant, and very interesting man. One nice thing about this volume was that I sympathized with a lot of the causes that Roosevelts was fighting for, like eliminating corruption from government.
My main complaint is that he repeatedly uses sexualized language in his descriptions, in unnecessarily and sometimes very weird ways. I believe there was also a bit of profanity.
Roosevelt was truly a unique, brilliant, and very interesting man. One nice thing about this volume was that I sympathized with a lot of the causes that Roosevelts was fighting for, like eliminating corruption from government.
My main complaint is that he repeatedly uses sexualized language in his descriptions, in unnecessarily and sometimes very weird ways. I believe there was also a bit of profanity.
Long as hell. Absolutely worth it, one of the best, if not *the* best biography I've ever read.
I zoomed through the first half of this book. The subject and the writing is engaging. I absolutely adored the young Theodore Roosevelt. The bit of the book that focuses on the military/battle action was the least interesting to me and took the longest for me to read through. At some instances it almost reads as a novel rather than a biography. I can't wait to continue with with next two volumes if they are well done as the first.
When I got to page 30 in this book I was depressed. This man, sorry BOY had done more in his pre-teen years than I have in my 41. What an amazing story Theodore Roosevelt tells. Author, adventurer, cowboy, Colonel, husband, father, widower, politician, Rancher, naturalist, speaker, debater, dude, King maker, friend, humorist, newspaper columnist, Deputy, financial supporter, Big Game Hunter, Police Commissioner, Civil Service reformer, Conservationalist, Mountain Climber, student, authority on Naval Warfare. Asst. Secretary to the Navy, policy maker, spotlight hogger, far thinker, War Hero, Governor, American...
And this all by 40. And this is just one third of his story. It continues in Mr. Morris' incredibly well researched biography of this incredible man. You feel like you are reading a fiction novel, the narrative flows nicely and the story just jumps from the page. I cannot wait to finish this trilogy!
And this all by 40. And this is just one third of his story. It continues in Mr. Morris' incredibly well researched biography of this incredible man. You feel like you are reading a fiction novel, the narrative flows nicely and the story just jumps from the page. I cannot wait to finish this trilogy!
For a biography it read like a novel. I found myself wanting to find out what happened next.
Read like an adventure story. What an interesting man Teddy was.
An amazing biography of a larger than life character of American history.
A book well-worthy of the Pulitzer Prize. Highly recommended.