Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, it recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, is itself the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Had he not died in 1919, at the early age of sixty, he would unquestionably have been reelected to a third term in the White House and completed the work he began in 1901 of establishing the United States as a model democracy, militarily strong and socially just. Had TR won his historic Bull Moose campaign in 1912 when he outpolled the sitting president, William Howard Taft, he might have averted World War I, so great was his international influence. If I see another king, he joked, I think I shall bite him. Crowned heads vied to put him up in their palaces. When he toured Europe in 1910 as plain Colonel Roosevelt, he was hailed as the most famous man in the world. Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest.Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office.
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Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history.
What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. A moving, beautifully rendered account.”-Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.
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