Morris' most recent literary notoriety stems from his controversial self- insertion as a fictional character in "Dutch," his authorized biography of Ronald Reagan. Modern biographers may have short-shrifted the first Roosevelt. "Isn't it a fine thing to be alive when so many great things are happening?" he asked a group of luncheon guests in 1903. Like the 20th century standing before him, Roosevelt was all appetite and clamor, and glad of it. Roosevelt was America's youngest president, and the most accomplished man to hold the office since Jefferson, a century earlier. , a man equally content skinny-dipping in the Potomac and leafing through a study of Indo-European ethnicity, in Italian. No one enjoyed the presidency, and no president enjoyed life, more than
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