![]() ![]() ![]() He loved hunting, fishing, reading, riding horses, and even climbing mountains while on vacation in Europe but most of all, as a young boy, he loved nature.ĭevouring every book on nature he could find and collecting as many small creatures as he could sneak into the house, Roosevelt had dreams of being a natural scientist and opening up a museum about nature one day. ![]() Overcoming his asthmatic attacks, Roosevelt became one of the most athletically powerful kids he knew. When Theodore was a child his parents were told that he wouldn’t live past the age of thirty years because of the gravity of his asthma. It is a “magnificent…sweeping narrative” that clearly illustrates the seven different men that embodied Theodore Roosevelt-a naturalist, a writer, a husband, a father, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician-a character that “surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence” ( New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly). This “meticulously researched and beautifully written” biography brings to life the “most interesting man ever to be President of this country” ( L.A. from his birth to his appointment from Vice-President to President of the United States after President McKinley was assassinated, and everything in between ( Time Magazine). In this “towering biography,” Edmund Morris’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was every part the legend that he has become today. ![]()
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