A Rough Rider at Rest

摘要

No ex-president has attackedrnhis post-Washington years with more gusto than Theodore Roosevelt. After leaving office in March 1909, T.R. embarked on a yearlong African safari and notched 296 kills. That was followed by a two-month valedictory tour of Europe, the formation of a third political party, under whose banner he attempted another presidential run, and a near fatal expedition down an uncharted tributary of the Amazon. It's the kind of postpresidency that makes the memoirs-and-lecture-circuit routine of today's former Commanders in Chief seem positively narcoleptic. And it has been manna for biographer Edmund Morris.