A review by hammo
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

3.0

Brought here by How I Met Your Mother.

Not nearly as interesting as I had been led to believe. This level of detail is absolutely not necessary for the Roosevelt neophyte.

> Being congenitally unable to function unless he had some symbols of evil to attack, Roosevelt looked about him for an opponent. He choose the biggest and nearest.

Roosevelt's sickest burn:
> Grant is one of the most interesting studies that I know of from the point of view of atavisim. I'm sure his brain must reproduce that of some long lost arboreal ancestor.

But I learned a valuable lesson from this book: if you're not enjoying a book, most of the time you should just drop it. Otherwise it'll derail your reading momentum and you'll go from 5 books ahead of schedule to 1 behind.