Steve Israel, who served in Congress for 16 years, knows that opening a bookstore in this day and age is a huge risk. But he says the biggest risks are worth taking. Israel named the store Theodore's Books in honor of his hero, President Teddy Roosevelt.
"My dream was to open up a small bookstore because I believe in bookstores and I believe a community is not a community unless it has a bookstore," Israel said. "People have said to me, 'Are you out of your mind? It's so hard to operate any small business, especially a bookstore, especially now.' I've always believed the biggest risks are worth taking."
The shop features all the genres you'd find in a typical bookstore but a big focus is on history and politics — Israel's two favorite topics. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for sale here pay homage to his 16 years in the House of Representatives., his hero — both in the political and literary worlds — really makes the store unique. An entire section is about the 26th president's life.
"I've read every single one of them so when someone comes in looking for a book on Roosevelt my job is to talk to them about the book, make recommendations and also see how they feel about those books," Israel said. "This is somebody who not only understood politics, he wrote and read voraciously, and I wanted to open a bookstore that reflected Theodore Roosevelt because
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