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The rise of Theodore Roosevelt

A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, covering the years from his birth in 1858 to 1901 when, with the death of President McKinley, he became the youngest president of the United States.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morris, Edmund
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, [2010]
Edition:	Random House 2010 harcover ed.
Subjects:	Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919. Presidents > United States > Biography. United States > Politics and government > 1901-1909. New York (State) > Politics and government > 1865-1950. Biographies.
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Summary:	A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, covering the years from his birth in 1858 to 1901 when, with the death of President McKinley, he became the youngest president of the United States.
Item Description:	Originally published: New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, ©1979; this updated version first appeared as a trade paperback by Modern Library, 2001. Continued by: Theodore Rex.
Physical Description:	xxxiv, 920 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Awards:	National Book Award, 1980 Pulitzer Prize, 1980
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 783-788) and index.
ISBN:	9781400069651 1400069653 9780375756788 0375756787
Author Notes:	Arthur Edmund Morris was born in Nairobi, Kenya on May 27, 1940. He studied literature, art, and music at Rhodes University in South Africa before leaving in 1961. He worked in the advertising department of a men's clothing store in South Africa and as an advertising copywriter in London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1980 for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. His other books included Theodore Rex, Beethoven: The Universal Composer, Colonel Roosevelt, and Edison. He was best known for Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, where he inserted himself as a fictional narrator. He also wrote about travel and the arts for numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper's Magazine. He died after a stroke on May 24, 2019 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography)