The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
Morris's Pulitzer-winning first volume: the asthmatic boy who built himself into a rancher, reformer, soldier and, at 42, president. The best book on self-made character in American biography.
Read it if…
you want a model of deliberate self-construction told brilliantly.
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Skip it if…
you want a short read; it is 900 pages and earns them.
Try instead: Theodore Rex →
Three things you will actually use
- Build the body, then the will.
- Action cures melancholy.
- Prepare for the role before it arrives.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the Dakota years.
Our verdict
Self-made character, definitively.
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