From the print and online editions of the nation's premier urban-policy magazine http://www.city-journal.org/cj-comments.xml?story=6897 Manhattan Institute check chanelbags to your friends chanelbags for gift http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#12742 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#12742 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:27:08 EST Every time I despair of my country, I recall that it was the land that provided the world with Teddy Roosevelt. I look forward to reading the last part of this wonderful work. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#5227 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#5227 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:51:19 EST I can't help but wonder how TR would defang Palin, Beck, and some of their left co-horts. Defang isn't the word---nonetheless, he's let them have it, sans cursing. Agree with Sayles....we've had noone like him since, nor will we ever, if we're to judge at our current crop of jackaknapes and tatterdemallions. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4595 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4595 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:22:24 EST Loved your review; reading T. Rex now....yes, it is like verse....rich. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4594 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4594 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:16:45 EST TR was a wonderful man, but I am afraid his New Nationalism and trust busting wouldn't sit too well with you folks at City Journal. Thanks for the review, though. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4545 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4545 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:58:14 EST It was interesting seeing how Morris' view of Roosevelt changed from one of admiration in his first volume to the final one where there is ambivalence about TR all over the place. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4480 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4480 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:23:39 EST I have read the entire trilogy and I agree Edmond Morris' biographies of TR are the best I have ever read. We forget today that TR was as famous or more so than JFK or FDR. I particularly liked the South American expedition and the characterization of his sons of whom I knew much less. I never knew my maternal grandfather (he was killed August 8, 1918 and my mother was an only child) but I do know he was an ardent admirer of TR and that my mother had a book of his that showed TR's expedition in Brazil. I also know my maternal grandfather became a naturalized US citizen due to his great admiration for TR and that he voted for him in 1912. The reviewer is quite right that this book is more than just a biography. It is a literary classic and one of the finest biographies of recent years. Thoroughly enjoyable, touching and also a warning that poor diet and overeating will kill anyone. TR ate at times like Babe Ruth, consuming a dozen eggs and rashers of bacon. I have been to TR jr's grave at Normandy; he is bured next to his brother Quentin the only WWI veteran buried there. One cannot admire the courage of the Roosevelts -both Republican and Democrat- and their great civic virtue. I had a chance to speak with James Roosevelt -a former Marine officer-and I had a long conversation some years ago with Earl Miller, FDR's bodyguard who at that time was a docent at the FDR library. They loved FDR, naturally, and had nothing bad to say about him but I think history will say the greatest Roosevelt was the first. He had to have been the most prolific author of any president. He was a cross between Lincoln, Jefferson and Churchill. He was absolutely amazing but also a kind person who was beloved by his wife and children. The personal TR had many fine and endearing characteristics not the least of which was his love of nature and his knowledge of natural science. He was bigger than Hemingway and John Wayne together. He was an American original. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4385 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4385 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:47:30 EST Stop calling him "Teddy!" http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4382 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4382 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:16:05 EST At 85, I have more important ,more urgent things to do than to immerse in T.R., but his life did justify three volumes. None before or after equalled his exuberance for all aspects of life. He was a Cesar too large. The world was too small to fit comfortably. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4376 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4376 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:49:22 EST Agree. Love Morris' muscular prose, and the City Journal's muscular politics. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4374 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6897#4374 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:24:23 EST