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If you\u2019ve been following The Art of Manliness for awhile, you know we\u2019re big fans of Theodore Roosevelt. The man embodied the Strenuous Life.<\/a> He was a rancher, a soldier, a hunter, a statesman, and a practitioner of boxing and judo. But what many people don\u2019t know about Roosevelt was that he was also an accomplished man of letters. He wrote over forty books himself and read thousands of others over the course of his lifetime. And as my guests on the show point out, TR\u2019s literary life was tightly interwoven with his mighty deeds. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today<\/span> on the show, historians (and husband and wife team) Thomas Bailey and Katherine Joslin discuss their book Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life<\/i><\/a>. We discuss how Roosevelt began the writing habit as a 7-year-old boy and how he wrote one of America’s greatest military histories when he was just 24 years old. We then discuss TR\u2019s greatest literary successes, including The Rough Riders<\/i>, The Winning of the West<\/i>, and African Game Trails<\/i>. Thomas and Katherine share how Roosevelt\u2019s penchant for action influenced his writing and how his writing inspired him to take action, and how John Wayne and Western movies wouldn\u2019t exist without TR’s literary work.<\/span><\/p>\n

We then get into Roosevelt’s reading habits, including his opinion of compiling lists of must-read books.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to gain new insights about one of America\u2019s larger-than-life characters listening to this show.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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