Praise for the classic biographies of Edmund Morris
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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. Time
Theodore Rex Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
A masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer. The Washington Post
As a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams s volumes on Jefferson and Madison. Times Literary Supplement
Colonel Roosevelt
Hair-raising . . . awe-inspiring . . . a worthy close to a trilogy sure to be regarded as one of the best studies not just of any president, but of any American. San Francisco Chronicle
[A] splendid and indispensable study of America s twenty-sixth president . . . Morris is a superb chronicler of Roosevelt s busy, peripatetic life. . . . Abraham Lincoln may embody America s soul, but Theodore Roosevelt has America s heart. Chicago Tribune
Table of Contents Prologue: New Year's Day, 1907 PART ONE 1858-1886 Interlude: Winter of the Blue Snow, 1886-1887 PART TWO 1887-1901 Epilogue: September 1901Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes Illustrations Index Prologue
The Roosevelt Africa Expedition, 1909-1910 PART ONE 1910-1913 Interlude Germany, October-December, 1913 PART TWO 1914-1919 Epilogue In Memoriam T.R. Acknowledgments Archives Select Bibliography Notes Illustration Credits Index
Prologue: 14-16 September 1901 THE FIRST ADMINISTRATION 1901-1904 Interlude THE SECOND ADMINISTRATION 1905-1909 Epilogue: 4 March 1909 Acknowledgments Archives Select Bibliography Notes Illustration Credits Index
Edmund Morris was born and educated in Kenya and went to 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 the Los Angeles Times Award for Biography in 2002. In between these two books, Morris became President Reagan s authorized biographer, and published the national bestseller Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. More recently he has written Beethoven: The Universal Composer and completed his Theodore Roosevelt trilogy with Colonel Roosevelt. Edmund Morris lives in New York City and Kent, Connecticut, with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris.