{"product_id":"the-rise-of-theodore-roosevelt-paperback","title":"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdmund Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - One of Modern Library\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003es 100 best nonfiction books of all time - One of \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e's 50 best biographies of all time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle.\"--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis classic biography is 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina \u003c\/i\u003ein 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by the \"Chicago Tribune as \"a classic,\" The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund Morris\u003c\/b\u003e was 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1980. Its sequel, \u003ci\u003eTheodore Rex, \u003c\/i\u003e won the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Biography in 2001. In between these two books, Morris became President Reagan's authorized biographer and wrote the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eDutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan\u003c\/i\u003e. He then completed his trilogy on the life of the twenty-sixth president with \u003ci\u003eColonel Roosevelt, \u003c\/i\u003e also a bestseller, and has published \u003ci\u003eBeethoven: The Universal Composer \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e This Living Hand and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eEdison \u003c\/i\u003eis his final work of biography. He was married to fellow biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris for fifty-two years. Edmund Morris died in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 960\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 20, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44442437845094,"sku":"9780375756788","price":34.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/YjU3Z2pkcHdvK2w4N2VsVHRFNEFYUT09.webp?v=1770605685","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-rise-of-theodore-roosevelt-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}