Author: Donald Wilhelm

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-14

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780483124103

Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt as an Undergraduate Three years before at a family luncheon a guest had noticed near one end of the table this same lad, with his spectacles and a mouth like a band of blued steel. Round his plate were scattered dead butterflies and beetles, which he studied while he ate, as if alone by a camp fire in some deep forest. Such power of concentration in a boy the guest had never seen. She inquired who that odd little fellow might be, and was told in a voice that seemed softened by respect, Little Theodore Roose velt, the brightest lad of all the family. For generations strong ancestors had been shaping the character of this boy as in the years long before they had struggled in the dykes of Holland and fought among the crags of Scotland. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, a bearded man of Dutch descent had married Martha Bulloch of Georgia, a beautiful woman of the languorous southern type. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.