Sallying forth with his rifle, he shot five sharptails. “At dawn Roosevelt woke to the hoarse clucking of hundreds of prairie-fowl. He felt as comfortable in upper-crust luncheons as spending days in the wild chasing bandits. His contradictory personality made him feel at ease anywhere. From shy, asthma-ridden “Teedie” to “President Theodore Roosevelt” - the man who led America into its most glorious century. Besides being President he was the author of thirty-eight books, natural historian, boxer, hunter, book nerd, war hero, police reformer, governor, cowboy, sheriff, farmer.
It was all curves and detours, which is what makes him so interesting. His life was far from a straight line into political glory. But you cannot write about Theodore Roosevelt without rambling. I don’t give this book 5 stars because it covered America’s inner political workings in too much detail while dedicating less to more interesting episodes such as the war in Cuba and Theodore’s life after he became President. But The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris comes as close as possible to such an epic undertaking. How can a book capture a man who is larger than life? You can write thousands of pages and there will be something missing. Contemporaries such as Mark Twain remark negatively about the President's methodologies and.Read to learn how a shy, timid, weak, and sickly child went to become the most powerful man in the world.
Though success marks most of Roosevelt's presidency, it is not without its critics.
His various sports interests such as wrestling, boxing and climbing, give him a strong physique which gain notice from each visitor on this New Year's Day. The President also makes an impressive physical impression. Seemingly without effort, Roosevelt fills his days with matters of national interest ranging from peacekeeping talks to environmental preservation. While regular citizens wait in a line that stretches for one-half of a mile, the president greets various dignitaries from both American government and foreign monarchies.Īs the author imagines waiting in the long line, he describes various habits of the President. In the prologue, the author describes in detail the way in which President Theodore Roosevelt greeted guests on New Year's Day, 1907.
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