The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Softcover

Morris, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345339029 ISBN 13: 9780345339027

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1986

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

This is Morris's highly acclaimed account of Theodore Roosevelt's life, encompassing the years from Roosevelt's birth to his service in the White House.

He was one of our most vibrant presidents; his image still haunts our past and our present. This fascinating and comprehensive biography of the extraordinary naturalist, adventurer, soldier, and politician, tells the improbable, but very real, story of a man determined to get what he wanted, an American who helped define our century and our very character.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Wonderfully absorbing.... Magnificent...a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his charcter...it is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read." --The New York Times Book Review

"A classic...Entertaining and colorful, powerful and fascinating."--Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Edmund Morris was born in Kenya and educated at the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi, and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before emigrating to the United States in 1968. His biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1980. In 1985 he was appointed Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, and The Washington Post. The second volume of his Roosevelt biography, Theodore Rex, has recently been published, and will be followed by a third. Edmund Morris lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0345339029
• ISBN 13: 9780345339027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 896