Kathleen Dalton's Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life incorporates the latest scholarship into a vigorous narrative. It stands as the only full-length biography to use manuscripts recently discovered in Roosevelt attics. Dalton sheds new light on young Theodore's life during the Civil War and his fascination with the new natural history, his shame over his father's failure to enlist in the Union army, his struggle to achieve manhood, and his desperate pursuit of and sometimes less than idyllic marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, the daughter of a banking magnate, when she was seventeen. Her death four years later left Roosevelt a grieving widower and father at twenty-six, and he went west to make himself a cowboy and western writer before he could recommit himself to a new life and a new love in the East.
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"I listened to this as an audio book and it was excellent. Probably my favorite of all TR biographies. I've listened to several and this one had plenty of detail I had not heard before in other books." — Serena_v (4 out of 5 stars)
"I listened to this as an audio book and it was excellent. Probably my favorite of all TR biographies. I've listened to several and this one had plenty of detail I had not heard before in other books."
" T.R. and Lincoln are by far the most interesting Presidents I have read about so far. "
" I've done quite a bit of research and read several other books on T.R. and was really looking forward to it. While the information within was interesting, the writing was extraordinarily dull making it a chore to push forward. Disappointing. "
" Whatever your politics, it is very difficult to read this book and walk away without a real admiration for Teddy Roosevelt the man. "
" The best Teddy Roosevelt Documentary ever written. "
" Read about 100 pages. Deadly dull writing, seemed like this was written in a foreign language and translated into English by some other egghead. The first Edmund Morris book was much better. "
" Theodore Roosevelt was an absolutely fascinating man, but, frankly, not very likeable. Also, although this book was very thorough, it was not particularly well written. "
Peter Ganim, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an American actor who has appeared on stage, on television, and in film. He has performed voice-over work since 1994.
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