The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)

by Edmund Morris

The President manages to get through at least one book a day even when he is busy.

On evenings like this, when he has no official entertaining to do, Roosevelt will read two or three books entire.

On being called to speak he seemed very shy and made, what I think he said, was his maiden speech. He still had difficulty in enunciating clearly or even in running off his words smoothly. At times he could hardly get them out at all, and then he would rush on for a few sentences, as skaters redouble their pace over thin ice.