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Ex Libris: Theodore Roosevelt

In this article in our series ‘Ex Libris,’ we explore a few of the books this president consumed daily.
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Ex Libris: Theodore Roosevelt
A painting of Theodore Roosevelt at his desk writing the Panama Canal Zone document, circa 1922. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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Of all our U.S. presidents, Theodore Roosevelt hands down wins the title of “Most Voracious Reader.”

A skilled speed-reader, he frequently consumed a book before breakfast and ingested one or two more in the evenings. By his own estimate, this reader of libraries had made his way through tens of thousands of books, including several hundred in foreign languages.
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.