Roosevelt’s last ten years included his “Man in the Arena” speech, the birth of the Bull Moose Party, the assassination attempt, and the trip to the Amazon that almost killed him. This book covers the last ten years of Roosevelt’s life - his post-presidency - and somehow it’s just as action-packed as the other amazing periods of his life. This is the third book in Morris’ TR trilogy, and once again it’s great. Morris died on at a hospital in Kent, from a stroke at the age of 78. Morris wrote extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, the New York Times, and Harper's Magazine.Įdmund Morris lived in New York City and Kent, Connecticut with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris. Morris's other books include Theodore Rex, the second in a projected three-volume chronicle of the life of Theodore Roosevelt, and Beethoven: The Universal Composer. After spending 14 years as President Reagan's authorized biographer, he published the national bestseller Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in 1999. His biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1980. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Morris received his early education in Kenya after which he attended Rhodes University in South Africa. This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name.Įdmund Morris, actor, playwright, author of screenplaysĮdmund Morris was a writer best known for his biographies of United States presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. 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 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.
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? Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. 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.
A moving, beautifully rendered account.”-Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.
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