Theodore Roosevelt, Kathleen Dalton
Theodore Roosevelt, Kathleen Dalton
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Theodore Roosevelt
A Strenuous Life

Author: Kathleen Dalton

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 28 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2008

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on May 17, 2015

[URL not allowed] One of the most recent comprehensive, single-volume biographies of TR is Kathleen Dalton’s 2002 “Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life.” Dalton is a history instructor at Phillips Academy at Andover and focuses on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She is curr......more

Goodreads review by Sara on August 06, 2023

It can be incredibly dry. Only 529 of the 700+ pages are text excluding sources, notes, and index. I am incredibly intrigued by Roosevelt. Without suffering through a 3 book biography, I would say that this is the most thorough one volume book on the president. It was wordy... Sometimes too wordy. I......more

Goodreads review by Gloria on September 25, 2008

'Strenuous' is an apt descriptor for Theodore Roosevelt and was a constant choice by him for his approach to life. The influence of early life experiences, particularly his asthma, and of his immediate family relationships, on all of his later life is shown along with his growth and change in emotio......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on May 08, 2019

Theodore Roosevelt is one of those American presidents who will forever be written about as generations will reinterpret him once again. And because he's such a colorful character that people love writing and reading about him. This is not any kind of hagiography at all Roosevelt had some dangerous te......more

Goodreads review by Riley on November 21, 2019

At long last, I have finished this mammoth, exhaustive "one volume" biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Given the depth of this one, I have to wonder about the detail of multi-volume biographies. Anyway, why would I read such a thing? Well, I read this because TR is my dad's favourite president. I had......more

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