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"Theodore Roosevelt: an American Sissy" (1981) Summary and Analysis
Theodore Roosevelt was an upper class sissy whose hyper-masculine jingoism and bully-bully swagger prefigured aspects of today's New Right, according to Vidal. The human being portrayed in a pair of Roosevelt biographies is both "fascinating and repellant," he asserts. Vidal refers to David McCullough, author of Mornings on Horseback, and The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris.
In three generations, the Roosevelts in 19th Century New York City had risen from hardware to plate glass to land development and banking. They were, according to Vidal, "a solemn, hardworking, uninspired lot who, according to the New York World, had a tendency 'to cling to the fixed and the venerable.'" It was from this clan of solid burghers that Theodore and his siblings emerged. Roosevelt made no lasting friendships while at...
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