[hoosierpearl]

Happy birthday pippin!

You got lucky with a birthday on the 26th, didn't you?

I wouldn't read George and Laura either. Looks like an uplifting book, says he's changed but chronicles in great detail every grungy thing he ever did. I felt really bad after reading it. Now I'll keep the Woodward book off my list as well.

I'm reading Theodore Rex now, I didn't read it when it first came out and really enjoy it. There are a number of things that remind me of W. This book presents several aspects of his character which surprised me. Theodore Roosevelt had a lot of boyishness and exuberance, loved sports. That reminds me of W.

[Pippin]

I haven't read Theodore Rex yet, but I'm reading the one about Edith Roosevelt. I get glimpses of Theodore in it. I'm going to have to get Theodore rex.

[Lemondropkid31]

It was uncomfortable to read that, but for me it just showed how much Laura meant to him and how glad we need to be that they got married!!!

[ohioWfan]

I felt bad after reading George and Laura too. So many things I didn't need or want to know to the point where I wondered if any of it was accurate.

There is so much inconsistency between the 'traditional gentleman' that his fiance described, the instant attraction the very particular Laura felt, and their quick courtship and marriage, and this horrific womanizing slob implied by the rest of the book.

I concluded that he was a wonderful young man, who occasionally drank too much and who didn't give a rip what his apartment looked like, or what clothes he was wearing.

Laura would never have been interested in the person they tried to portray him to be in that book.

It's all part of the 'W is a stupid nothing whom Laura saved from the gutter and is thus unworthy of being our President' left-wing tripe, IMO.