Immersive, sometimes harrowing ... Engrossing dynamic ... Holt leans heavily on the Roosevelts’ 1929 memoir...which can sometimes give her book a derivative feeling ... Many of these digressions add color and context, but some... seem like padding ... Absorbing.
Apt ... Appealing and thought-provoking, this winning book uncovers the Roosevelts’ history-making quest to bring a giant panda specimen to the States.
