Theodore Roosevelt and the River of Doubt

He was keenly aware of his own flaws and regularly documented them, as did his father. The thing is, as you can't compare yourself to the Adamses because you will always come up short just terribly. So with Theodore Roosevelt went on the river of doubt in 1914, he took 50 books. He had what he called his pigskin library and he got regular books and he had them rebound in pigskin so that they could survive the rigors of this journey. It turns out to be an ordeal, almost a race for life for Roosevelt and his son Kermit.