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Originally Posted by taosaur
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Right about the time I was wrapping that up, I stumbled into a conversation about Upton Sinclair and Theodore Roosevelt, and someone recommended Edmund Morris' three-volume Roosevelt biography, and particularly the audiobooks (at least for volumes 1 and 3...). So, now I'm listening to The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, which is more fascinating than I could have imagined. So far it's a very novelistic read about a larger-than-life character, but gives every indication of being well-sourced.
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I have that audiobook. It's excellent. Morris won the Pulitzer Prize for that one, and it's well deserved. I thought that Deakins did a good job as the narrator, though narrator for a non fiction book tends to be less oriented towards voice actor and more towards having a listenable reading style, if that makes sense. For some odd reason, the middle book Theodore Rex, has a different reader than the first and third. No idea why. I thought both narrators were fine.
It can be interesting to compare this book to David McCullough's book about Theodore Roosevelt during the same period.