The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (CD-Audio)

from mattries37315

In the early afternoon of September 13, 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was eating lunch on his descent from the top of Mount Marcy where he no doubt had contemplated his future not only in politics but in life. Now just hours after possibly concluding that his political fortunes would de...

from tuckerresearch

A deserved winner of the Pulitzer, Morris writes an amazing biography of an important person who led an amazing and strenuous life.

from publiusdb

The great thing about reading Edmund Morris is two-fold: he presents extremely thorough research with a enjoyable reading style that makes one feel like they are reading fiction. As a friend put it, it's like reading a novel, not a biography. It doesn't hurt that Theodore Roosevelt lived a life t...

from RhysBans

Edmund Morris is a genius! He has made me not only interested in reading more of his work about Theodore Roosevelt, he's also made me interested in reading biographies about presidents, people of history, great women and men! This book is absolutely amazing. I am not the quickest reader, either, ...

from stretch

[The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt] is a dense, but fascinating tale of TR's meteoric rise to the White House. From his sickly, asthmatic youth as a globetrotting child naturalist through his years as a legislator and reform politician and later cowboy adventurer, Roosevelt lived a life of almost fi...