Theodore Roosevelt – Lion in The White House
By: Aida D. Donald
This is how a seventeen-year-old trooper in Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Rider regiment described his leader. In this account, as in all other stories about Roosevelt and there were scores over the years he “was his own limelight,” as the novelist Owen Wister, who knew him, acutely observed. An incandescent figure, by the age of forty he seemed invincible, with his jutting jaw, too-large teeth, gleaming eyes, spectacles, and a muscular body poised like a cat ready to strike. A steam engine of a man, he had already established a reputation for himself in multiple, and overlapping, realms: writer, cowboy, politician, environmentalist. Now he added soldier. Soon enough, he would add president and world leader to the list. In every realm he mastered whatever task he took on. He was, quintessentially, a reformer in a turbulent age. [download]
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