Fascinating and informative, as are all the McCullough books I’ve read.

I finished the audiobook the day after his Roosevelt’s statue was removed from the entrance plaza of the American Museum of Natural History in NYC because of its depiction of racial hierarchy. The annotated version only alludes to his personal problematic views on race and class, though his maternal family’s slave-holding history is covered in numbers and narrative. His support for the eugenics movement is not mentioned.

Review of the annotated audio (the only version available at my libraries): This version focused heavily on Roosevelt’s family backgrounds and his childhood. Only the last quarter discusses his adulthood and his political career.

The change of voice narrators and several long pauses were a distraction from the otherwise well built flow of the book.