The book: The Bully Pulpit, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. When this I book came out, I had zero interest in reading it. Zero interest. Teddy Roosevelt just doesn’t thrill me all that much. H.L Mencken’s essay, “Roosevelt: An Autopsy” concludes: Enormously sensitive and resilient, almost pathological in his appetite for activity, he made it plain to every one that the most stimulating sort of sport imaginable was to be obtained in fighting, not for mere money, but for ideas. There was no … [Read more...] about Taft for President
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
