Eduardo’s Reviews > The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey > Status Update

Daddy paid someone else to fight in the civil war so now this poltroon if full of pull-yourself-by-your-own-bootstraps heroism. I wish the author was more questioning and less gushy about TRs antics. I guess the book is 20 years old.

I don’t think the writer wrote this book with Hispanics in mind, needing Colombians. The revolution incited by TR in Colombia to breakaway Panama to build the canal the USA terms gets a passing judgment judgement jingoistic treatment. This is often what happens with these historical books. They are more about propaganda than facts.