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Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris — WisdomDeck honest review
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Colonel Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

The final decade: Africa, the Bull Moose campaign, the River of Doubt, the war he could not join. A portrait of a great man refusing to fade.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Purpose does not retire.
  2. Ambition has costs.
  3. Face the arena to the end.

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Ambition after power.

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