She once wrote a book about growing up a Brooklyn Dodgers’s fan living in Rockville Centre NY. Mike Francesca and Mad Dog Russo spent one four hour show highlighting the countless errors, mistake, and misrepresentations they found in a perusing of her work.She has been working on a bio of TR and said she was very surprised and disturbed to find that her progressive hero was a racist and an imperialist. Duuuhhh!
Speaking of TR, I read the first two volumes of Edmund Morris' massive (one is tempted to say 'definitive') biography of Theodore Roosevelt. I didn't know all that much about TR before reading those volumes. At least I did not know as much as I thought I knew. The first volume (The rise of Theodore Roosevelt) was almost like reading an adventure story, dealing as it did with TR's struggles with poor health, his loss of his first wife and mother on the same day, his adventures in the Dakotas, the Spanish American War, etc. The second volume (Theodore Rex) dealt with his presidency. I was shocked to see how "progressive" TR eventually became. He basically "pulled a Rubio" in switching from conservative principles to progressive ones to the point he may as well have been William Jennings Bryan. I remember thinking as I read it: "thank God TR did not stand for another term". I need to pick up the third volume (Colonel Roosevelt) and read it soon.