Review: Still has the training wheels on
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
if you have never read a biography of Teddy Roosevelt,  this is reasonable introduction to TR.  It would be nice if the author had really done analysis instead of injecting herself.  She states what we now call ADHD was once called artistic temperament.  I was hoping she would develop the concept through out the book.  She alludes to times of great activity, or depression, on TR's part, but does not tie back to the concept.  Half way through the book she hypothesizes TR had a mystical experience while training the Rough Riders.  Her evidence is a book he read and a change in behavior.  Nothing in his writings supports her premise.  Working with a diverse group like the Rough Riders could have the change in behavior.  While she does not develop her thesis about the artistic temperament, she pounds of this mystical experience.  The author has potential.  I hope she realizes it, as she did not in this book,