River of DoubtRiver of Doubt
[Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey]
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Audiobook CD, 2005
Current format, Audiobook CD, 2005, Library ed., All copies in use.Audiobook CD, 2005
Current format, Audiobook CD, 2005, Library ed., All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsJust try to imagine it: George W. Bush loses re-election by a landslide and, undeterred by the humiliation of it all, sets off on a journey of unspeakable danger and hardship into the darkest depths of the Amazon jungle. There would be a media circus the likes of which the world has never seen. Picture the TV crews following in his wake, tripping over chemical toilets, generators and satellite phones. In these times of media gurus and spin-doctoring, we would write off the expedition as a stunt, a way of stealing the limelight from his rival's victory. Rewind almost a century, to November 1912. Theodore Roosevelt, one of the most popular presidents in American history, is crushed at the polls by Woodrow Wilson after two terms in office (this was before the two-term rule). Roosevelt is 54 years of age, 5'5" tall, weighs more than 200 pounds and when speaking sounds "as if he had just taken a sip of helium." He's shunned by his high-society Republican friends for having run as a third-party candidate, and is generally lampooned by everyone else for losing by such a wide margin. What does he do? Sets off into the Brazilian jungle to venture up an uncharted tributary of the Amazon, known as "The River of Doubt, " which has given Candice Millard the title of her fine account of the expedition.
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- Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2005.
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