Edmund Morris

Let's take a carriage ride.

And I got to give a salute to Edmund Morris and Theodore Rex.

Edmund Morris, his book from 2001, the second in a series of three about Roosevelt.

If you don't know this book, you should be reading Edmund Morris's three books on Theodore Roosevelt, but I think a lot of my listeners already know it.

In any case, using some fiction devices, here's his description of that day.

To Roosevelt, as all marathon campaigners, the trip had become an accelerating blur, a melange of whistle stops, poking hands, curious eyes, and bands, bands, bands, thumping hands.