Summer reading advice from the Bull Moose

As Americans indulge their seasonal search for good beach books, they might profit from some advice on the subject from Theodore Roosevelt. Hard-charging, hard-playing, always on the move, President Roosevelt might seem an unlikely source of wisdom on what to read while serenely sunning near the surf. But “T.R.” was a lively geyser of opinions on issues large and small, and the modest matter of vacation reading proved to be no exception. The former president weighed in on the matter in the April 1915 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal. The Christian Science Monitor reviews Roosevelt’s recommendations in this article.