Fair Warning: This book holds zero punches on TR. I knew some of the negative aspects and ideals that he had, but this shined a light on all of them and dissects them like I've never read before. Reading about anyone that shared his thoughts on race as strongly as he did is hard, it's even harder when it is someone that has been so whitewashed and looked up to over the years. The man's face is carved on Mount Rushmore for criminy's sake. His predecessors, I can almost give a pass because they didn't have the science to refute or think differently about race. However, just about all of our founding fathers that share space on that massive mountain were conflicted by the questions of race at least in their personal life and writings if not their public persona.