On Teddy Roosevelt

I have a good, recent biography at home, i'll try to remember to give the citation.

On another note, TR wrote The Rough Riders, The Naval War of 1812, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, and History as Literature. The last is a set of essays. He was no world class great author, but his work is interesting, his history is soundly based, and the essays are a view into his mind.

Good topic for your reading, Boss, now i just need to remember to give you the bio citation.

Here ya go:

T.R.: The Last Romantic, H. W. Brands, Basic Books, New York, 1997.

It is relatively short, about 800 pages, and a sympathetic treatement without being a panegyric. If you decide to read it, i think you'll enjoy it.

Both EDmund Morris books, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt' and "T Rex" were both well written and well researched with lots of sources. Morris won the pulitzer for The Rise of Theodore roosevelt. I actually like Theordore Rex better, It was strait from the hip.

Great! Thanks farmerman the books and review are much appreciated.

Setanta: Thanks, other's books about the man are appreciated but his essay's provide that dimension not afforded elsewhere

Thanks to both of you guys!

JM

Setanta:

Just curious, is that a grinch Santa hat on that one specific best friend of man?

JM

Ive read some of his essays and earlier works on birds of the "boreal" forest. They were written in a really scholarly fashion while he was a kid at Harvard and they are very readable. He was a really gifted mind.

I'm more grinch-like, JM, than the dog portrayed, who is a hopeless canine love slut . . .

However, (Im gonna jump here) I think he was ADD.