theodore roosevelt，twenty-sixth president of the unitedstates，wrote forty books.his first was written during his senioryear at harvard university —the naval war of 1812.roosevelt had a long and varied career.he headed the newyork city police board and was a spanish-american war hero，governor of new york state，big-game hunter，explorer，and conservationist.
but not more than a half-dozen people in the country knewthat president theodore roosevelt had lost his sight of his lefteye.he was struck in the eye during a vigorous boxing ex-ercise with a young army officer，in 1904，and his vision be-came dimmer and dimmer until there was no sight at all from 1908 on.t.r.was sensitive over the defect，and carefully avoidedgiving the impression that he was using only one eye.
美国第26届总统西奥多·罗斯福写过40本书。他的第一本书是在哈佛大学读四年级时写的—《1812年的海战》。罗斯福活得很长，一生中从事过多种工作。他曾是纽约市警察委员会主席、西班牙-美国战争中的英雄、纽约州州长、猎人、探险家和自然保护主义者。
但是当年美国最多只有五六个人知道西奥多·罗斯福总统左眼丧失了视力。在1904年同一位年轻军官的一次猛烈的拳击练习中，罗斯福的眼睛被击中，随后视力逐渐衰退，1908年以后完全失明。罗斯福对这一缺陷非常敏感，十分小心地避免让人家看出来他只用一只眼睛。