6/29/2023 0 Comments Colonel roosevelt![]() ![]() ![]() Because once readers rediscover the breadth of Roosevelt’s achievements - literary and political - and the warmth of his remarkable personality, and even the failings and contradictions that made him so very human, they’ll be hooked. And thanks to Morris, he will do so again. It might have been rude, but at least it was honest.ĭuring his lifetime, the rugged, optimistic and extraordinary Roosevelt (1858-1919) seemed to represent America better than anybody else. He seemed to gobble life as he went along, and the parts that weren’t to his taste - ideas, books and people as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner - he would spit right out. He was passionately fond of long expeditions to mysterious and remote regions of the world, from Africa to South America, and once there, he shot animals with gleeful abandon lions, elephants, zebras, gazelles, pelicans and crocodiles all fell in the wake of his frenzied trigger-pulls. ![]() He had “a profound enjoyment of anything rocky, slimy, hardscrabble and dangerous,” as Edmund Morris writes in the third and final volume in his splendid biography of Theodore Roosevelt. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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