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Oct 25, 2013hmcgivney rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Teddy Roosevelt (apparently he hated that nickname) was such a contradiction: a conservationist who loved to hunt for sport, and a bookish academic who loved the manly pursuits and wanted very badly to fight in a war. I learned so much from this biography that it's kind of hard to process it all, but I loved it from beginning to end (well, except some of the political minutia). All of the details of Theodore's early life were very interesting, especially his time at Harvard and courtship of first wife, Anna. It is so much fun to imagine the skinny, hyper-intelligent and hyper-active dynamo that he must have been. I felt so much empathy for the Roosevelt who went West after Anna and his mother died on the same day (!). And the Rough Rider Colonel Roosevelt was pretty entertaining. But at the end of this book, we were just getting to the Theodore Roosevelt that I'm most interested in - the canny President. Side note: I think that the narrator gives a bit of an odd reading sometimes, giving emphasis in strange places, but I could tell that he had lots of fun with his Teddy Roosevelt voice.