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Title: Go elsewhere for TR
Review: This is unfortunately not a very good biography. It was written, one supposes, to give a "woman's perspective" on TR, but gives that genre -- if it's a genre -- a bad name. World War One is given the same weight as the arrival of pet squirrels and children's coughs. We get a slab of family life and then a slab of contemporary politics, and then a slab of family life and so on throughout the book. There is no historical perspective or synthesis that might move the reader to a greater, more thoughtful, height. The only reason I give it two stars is that there is a great deal of fact in the book, and it isn't poorly written. But go somewhere else for a bio.
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