Colonel Roosevelt

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

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Published: 11/23/2010
ISBN: 9780375504877
Pages: 784
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.65w x 1.84d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist

Review Citations: New York Review of Books 05/12/2011 pg. 29
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2010 pg. 68
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2010
Publishers Weekly 10/11/2010 pg. 37
Booklist 11/01/2010 pg. 13
Library Journal 11/15/2010 pg. 74
New York Times Book Review 11/28/2010 pg. 16
New York Times Book Review 12/05/2010 pg. 60
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/05/2010 pg. 30
New Yorker (The) 12/20/2010 pg. 123
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2011 pg. 6
Choice 07/01/2011
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/08/2010 pg. 29
BookPage 12/01/2010