David McCullough in his book Mornings On Horseback tells this story about young Teddy Roosevelt:
Mittie (his mother) had found he was so afraid of the Madison Square Church that he refused to set foot inside if alone. He was terrified, she discovered, of something called the "zeal." It was crouched in the dark corners of the church ready to jump at him, he said. When she asked what a zeal might b...
2. Read Myself Awake
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David McCullough
I like something I once read about Harry Truman. A friend of President Truman arrived early in the morning and the President wasn't up yet, but Mrs. Truman said, "Go right into his bedroom he'd love to see you." So his friend, a prominent publisher, walked in, and there was the former President, sitting in a big chair with two stacks of new books on either side of him. He had obviously just gone o...
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