Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times

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“Beginning with his sickly childhood and concluding with McKinley’s assassination, the novel positions [Theodore] Roosevelt as a ‘perfect bull in a china shop,’ a fearless crime fighter and pioneering environmentalist who would grow up to be our greatest peacetime president. With an operatic cast, including ‘Bamie,’ his handicapped older sister; Eleanor, his gawky little niece; as well as the devoted Rough Riders, the novel memorably features the lovable mountain lion Josephine, who helped train Roosevelt for his ‘crowded hour,’ the charge up San Juan Hill”