Opinion on Theodore Roosevelt's writing? Would you consider

Roosevelt's reputation as a good writer is well-deserved; as your screencap shows, he's got a wonderful style and really makes you feel grounded in the places he describes.

He also famously read an insane amount. I'm not sure if he was the last romantic, but he was a romantic, no doubt of that.

>>8423545
Yeah, not only was he a speed-reader, but he had a photographic memory, which is a dangerous combination. There are stories of Roosevelt reading a handful of books a day, turning multiple pages per minute. If asked about the books, to test if he really read them, he could easily give any piece of specification, and he could even cite entire paragraphs as if he had memorized them in the span of a few seconds.

He was an incredible reader.

There is a story about the President traveling by train to deliver a speech somewhere. When the train landed, no one could find him. They finally found him locked in the bathroom, standing, reading under the light, with Sherlock Holmes in one hand and The History of the Mongols in the other hand.

>>8423521
hey, this is actually pretty good

>>8423592
That sounds like complete fantasty horseshit, but Roosevelt's prose does stand on it's own merit.