Why they chose the droll voice as the basis for narration I cannot say. During several brief passages you hear him drift off into various accents - which he does superbly. My only comment would be that the narrator is somewhat droll in his reading. These 4 discs take you up to and beyond the birth of his daughter - and how his life was forever changed after that event (you'll understand when you listen). His first hand experience in the Bad Lands let to modern day Governmental conservatism and the National Park system (addressed in Theodore Rex). The United States should thank our very stars that Roosevelt eventually rose to power. While this book is fairly dry - most biographies are - you gain a true sense of his very nature and what makes him distinct from his contemporaries. By age 19 he's found his voice, become quite outgoing, and his intellect separates him from the drolls of the well-educated, well-to-do, status-quo peers at harvard. 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt' by Edmund Morris is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one of the most charismatic and influential presidents in American. Of the Chosen Class (sons and daughters of the Rich) he stands apart - and his Naturalism (love of nature) truly comes out. This is the first half of the Pulitzer winning biography, you see "Teddy", small and weakly, benefit from his misfortunes.
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