The Strenuous Life: How Theodore Roosevelt Built Himself
He was born unable to breathe and built himself into the most physically relentless man of his age. From “make your body” to jiu-jitsu in the White House, from the worst day of his life in the Dakota Badlands to a bullet in the chest in 1912 — the story of how a sickly boy made Theodore Roosevelt, and what the strenuous life still asks of anyone trying to build something.
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