"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Theodore Roosevelt views a teddy bear laid in his path on a 1910 visit to Oxford, where the chancellor, Lord Curzon, addressed him as, "peer of the most august kings, queller of wars, destroyer of monsters wherever found, yet the most human of mankind, deeming nothing indifferent to you, not even the blackest of the black."
At Armavirumque, Roger Kimball has been reading Roosevelt's letters and speeches and suggests TR's views on home and family would trigger apoplexy among today's chattering classes.