The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

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Lithuanian

Random House
15 September 2001

Biography: historical, political & military; History

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD . One of Modern Library's 100 best nonfiction books of all time . One of Esquire's50 best biographies of all time

""A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle.""-Time

This classic biographyis the story of seven men-a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician-who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year's Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. One visitor remarked afterward, ""You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk-and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes.""

The rest of this book tells the story of TR's irresistible rise to power. During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading ""Roosevelt's Rough Riders"" in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his ""spare hours"" he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called ""that damned cowboy"" was vice president. Seven months later, an assassin's bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved.

His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR's pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive. ""It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves,"" the author writes, ""and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people.""

By: Edmund Morris
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9780375756788
ISBN 10: 0375756787
Pages: 944
Publication Date: 15 September 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Language: Lithuanian
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Praise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume. -W. A. Swanberg, The New York Times Book Review Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country. -Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence. -The Atlantic Monthly Morris's book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of thousands will soon be reading this book . . . and will look forward, as I do, to Morris's second volume. -Kenneth S. Davis, Worcester Sunday Telegram From the Hardcover edition. Praise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume. -W. A. Swanberg, The New York Times Book Review Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country. -Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence. - The Atlantic Monthly Morris s book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of thousands will soon be reading this book . . . and will look forward, as I do, to Morris s second volume. -Kenneth S. Davis, Worcester Sunday Telegram From the Hardcover edition. Praise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume. -W. A. Swanberg, The New York Times Book Review Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country. -Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence. - The Atlantic Monthly Morris's book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of thousands will soon be reading this book . . . and will look forward, as I do, to Morris's second volume. -Kenneth S. Davis, Worcester Sunday Telegram From the Hardcover edition. Praise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume. -W. A. Swanberg, The New York Times Book Review Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country. -Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence. - The Atlantic Monthly Morris's book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of thousands will soon be reading this book . . . and will look forward, as I do, to Morris's second volume. -Kenneth S. Davis, Worcester Sunday Telegram From the Hardcover edition. Praise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume. -W. A. Swanberg, The New York Times Book Review Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country. -Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence. - The Atlantic Monthly Morris's book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of t Praise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume. -W. A. Swanberg, The New York Times Book Review Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country. -Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence. - The Atlantic Monthly Morris' s book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of thousands will soon be reading this book . . . and will look forward, as I do, to Morris' s second volume. -Kenneth S. Davis, Worcester Sunday Telegram From the Hardcover edition.