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Awards
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Edmund MorrisPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Random House Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.80cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 1.349kg ISBN: 9781400069651ISBN 10: 1400069653 Pages: 960 Publication Date: 23 November 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. The New York Times Book Review A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle. Time 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. 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] prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid, and his sense of narrative flow is nearly flawless. . . . The author re-creates a sense of the scene and an immediacy of the situation that any skilled writer should envy and the most jaded reader should find a joy. The Miami Herald A monumental work in every sense of the word . . . a book of pulsating and well-written narrative. The Christian Science Monitor Praise for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. -- The New York Times Book Review A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle. -- Time 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. -- 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] prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid, and his sense of narrative flow is nearly flawless. . . . The author re-creates a sense of the scene and an immediacy of the situation that any skilled writer should envy and the most jaded reader should find a joy. -- The Miami Herald A monumental work in every sense of the word . . . a book of pulsating and well-written narrative. -- The Christian Science Monitor Praise for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt <br> <br> Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> <br> A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle. -- Time <br> <br> 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. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> <br> 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 <br> <br> [Morris's] prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid, and his sense of narrative flow is nearly flawless. . . . The author re-creates a sense of the scene and an immediacy of the situation that any skilled writer should envy and the most jaded reader should find a joy. -- The Miami Herald <br> <br> A monumental work in every sense of the word . . . a book of pulsating and well-written narrative. -- The Christian Science Monitor Praise for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt <br> Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle. -- Time <br> 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. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> 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 <br> [Morris's] prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid, and his sense of narrative flow is nearly flawless. . . . The author re-creates a sense of the scene and an immediacy of the situation that any skilled writer should envy and the most jaded reader should find a Praise for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. --The New York Times Book Review A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle. --Time 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. --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] prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid, and his sense of narrative flow is nearly flawless. . . . The author re-creates a sense of the scene and an immediacy of the situation that any skilled writer should envy and the most jaded reader should find a joy. --The Miami Herald A monumental work in every sense of the word . . . a book of pulsating and well-written narrative. --The Christian Science Monitor Author InformationEdmund Morriswas born and educated in Kenya and attended college in South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. His first book,The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1980. Its sequel,Theodore Rex,won theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for Biography in 2001. In between these two books, Morris became President Reagan's authorized biographer and wrote the national bestsellerDutch- A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. He then completed his trilogy on the life of the twenty-sixth president withColonel Roosevelt,also a bestseller, and has publishedBeethoven- The Universal ComposerandThis Living Hand and Other Essays.Edisonis his final work of biography. He was married to fellow biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris for fifty-two years. Edmund Morris died in 2019. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |