Edmund Morris begins Theodore Rex, the second installment of his biographical trilogy, within hours of where he ended of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. The prologue shows Roosevelt's journey first to Buffalo then escorting his slain predecessor's body to Washington for a public memorial. Morris tra...
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 desce...
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 desc...
A detailed narrative with the page-turning energy of a good novel, probably because of the burning energy of the subject. Teddy Roosevelt was an explorer, an adventurer, a voracious reader, a classicist, and a brilliant bulldog of a politician who went after what he wanted, damn the torpedoes and p...
This has to be the most epic biography of all time. There are no words that completely encapsulate Morris's achievement with his masterwork on the life of Roosevelt. Erudite, meticulously researched and contextualized, but without the "dryasdust" academic tone common to multivolume works or the pane...
This second volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his presidential years and is marked by the same level of dogged and rigorous research as the first. Morris, once again, blends the fastidiousness of serious academic research with a compelling journalistic narrative uncomm...
Simply the best biography I've ever read or am likely to read. Morris has gone through absolutely painstaking detail to recount Roosevelt's early years down to his daily routines. The book is so thoroughly researched that hardly three lines go by without an end note citing sources and further elabor...
Mainly interesting because it's about the fascinating figure of Beethoven. Morris seems to revel in the technical details of the works, but I'm not really an expert so those passages were lost to me. Still, a rather well written biography that succeeds in creating an image of the personality of Beet...
I very thoroughly enjoyed this book! The only reason I gave it four stars instead of five was that the only version I could get on CD was abridged, and I extremely dislike abridged versions of things.I loved learning about Teddy Roosevelt. He was an unbelievably honest and strong-minded person. The ...
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