By Henry Cabot Lodge & Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge retell what they deem essential stories from American history. While I read the book, I provide here a portion of the review/release from White Hall Press:
Comprised of true tales, to be sure, the authors wrote them to read like valiant fables and not like vapid facts. Henry Cabot Lodge met Theodore Roosevelt when the two young men first came to Washington D.C. at the advent of their public service careers. Lodge was an accomplished first-term congressman representing Massachusetts. Roosevelt was a newly appointed Federal Civil Service Commissioner, already having gained national attention as an irrepressible reformer in the notorious snarl of New York politics. The two became fast friends. Both were deeply devout and scrupulously moral, then as now, rather rare traits in Washington. And both men eventually were to go on to have stellar careers and leave indelible marks on American history. Just a few years after they met, they co-wrote this collection of historical profiles and vignettes. It was their favorite project, and it remained so throughout their lives. Reading it today reveals much about the strength that both men drew from their relationship.
In a day when so much of our past is being re-thought, re-evaluated, and re-pressed, this volume by U.S. statesmen is a worthy and necessary read.