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History Unplugged Podcast

The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A century after Theodore Roosevelt’s death, the personal attributes that endeared him to Americans have become obscured.

He is mostly known for his many accomplishments in conservation, as a solider and explorer, and a successful presidency. Most photos of Roosevelt are formal portraits as we he was seldom recorded in motion pictures, and cartoonists often portrayed him as overexaggerated and hyperactive.

Today’s guest is Rick Marschall, and he has mined old newspapers, memoirs, diaries and letters for personal impressions to share almost five hundred vital and interesting accounts of the fascinating man who captivated a nation in his day in his new book, The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt

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0:00.0

Sky here with another episode of the History and Plugged Podcast.

0:07.8

A century after Theodore Roosevelt's death, the personal attributes that endeared him to Americans

0:11.9

have become obscured.

0:13.0

He's mostly known for his accomplishments in conservation, in creating national parks,

0:17.0

as a soldier, charging San Juan Hill with the rough riders, and explore going on African safaris,

0:22.0

traveling out the Amazon River. But beyond all these accomplishments, and exploring

0:23.4

at the Amazon River. But beyond all these accomplishments, he's arguably the most interesting president or perhaps even American we've ever had.

0:30.2

Today's guest is Rick Marshall and he mined old newspapers, memoirs, diaries, and letters for personal impressions of Roosevelt.

0:37.0

He's the author of the book The Most Interesting American Personal Encounters, quotations, and First-H impressions of Theodore Roosevelt.

0:42.0

We look at this adventurous side, how Roosevelt was the... quotations and first-hand impressions of Theodore Roosevelt.

0:42.6

We look at this adventurous side, how Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an official

0:46.4

presidential automobile, descend into a submarine, fly in an airplane, and travel outside the United States

0:50.8

while in office, how he lived a life of action as a young

0:53.5

athlete, a rancher, and a boxer and judo-cah while he was president. We also look

0:58.6

at him as a scholar, how he read books throughout the day and wrote multiple books himself and many other stories

1:04.5

from the inexhaustible reservoir that is Teddy Roosevelt. Hope you enjoy this discussion

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with Rick Marshall. And one more thing before we get started with this episode, a quick break for word from

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our sponsors. There's an inexhaustible number of stories and

1:23.6

amidotes about Theodore Roosevelt.

1:25.6

I've mentioned many of them on this podcast,

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but we're gonna get into those

1:30.8

in much more detail in this episode. And many more that listeners haven't heard of before.

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