NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK -
"Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a
brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A
moving, beautifully rendered account."--Fred Kaplan, The Washington
Post
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book
Award-winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore
Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive.
Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose
greatness increased out of office. What other president has written
forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an
assassin's bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine?
Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a
big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork
recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American
history.
"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