Saturday, May 29, 2010

Teddy's Playmate...


I have always been fascinated by Theodore Roosevelt's friendship with Leonard Wood. So, a little poking around and I came up with a wonderful biography of the great man: Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism (New York University Press). Talk about the All-American boy: Apache hunter, commander of Rough Riders (and Roosevelt) in Cuba, surgeon, football player (he played on the first Georgia Tech team while stationed in Atlanta with the Army - he signed up for a wood shop class so he could play... and he was married with a son at the time!). This book really helps to further understand the time, the people (especially Roosevelt) and the rise of the American Empire.

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