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  • Roosevelt: An Autopsy, by H.L. Mencken (1920)

    06/15/2013 6:25:59 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 22 replies
    (Book) Prejudices, part 2 | 1920 | Henry Louis Mencken
    (Theodore) Roosevelt: An AutopsyONE thinks of Dr. Woodrow Wilson's biography of George Washington as of one of the strangest of all the world's books. Washington: the first, and perhaps also the last American gentleman. Wilson: the self-bamboozled Presbyterian, the right-thinker, the great moral statesman, the perfect model of the Christian cad. It is as if the Rev. Dr. Billy Sunday should do a biography of Charles Darwin - almost as if Dr. Wilson himself should dedicate his senility to a life of the Chevalier Bayard, or the Cid, or Christ. . . . But such phenomena, of course, are not...