THE OLD LION by Jeff Shaara (St. Martin's Press, 480 pp., $30) Midway through Jeff Shaara’s “The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt,” Roosevelt, “a tornado of energy,” whirls about the White ...
Biographers call him an American original. Jan. 20 and 21, the History Channel calls him TR: An American Lion --and the aptness of that title is evident in virtually every foot of this remarkably rich ...
FARGO — Theodore Roosevelt vibrated with the vitality of life, but he long harbored a premonition that he would not live past the age of 60. That sobering belief might help to explain why Roosevelt ...