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The rise of Theodore Roosevelt / by Edmund Morris.

Morris, Edmund. (Author).

Summary:

"The story of seven men--a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician--who merged at the age of 42 to become the youngest President in history"--Container.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0739301829 :
  • Physical Description: 8 audio discs (ca. 9 hr.) ; digital , 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, p2002, c1979.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Abridged.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Harry Chase.
System Details Note:
Compact discs.
Subject: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Presidents > United States > Biography
United States > Politics and government > 1901-1909.
New York (State) > Politics and government > 1865-1950.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Edmund Morris was born in Kenya and educated at the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi, and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before emigrating to the United States in 1968. His biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1980. In 1985 he was appointed Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, and The Washington Post. The second volume of his Roosevelt biography, Theodore Rex, has recently been published, and will be followed by a third. Edmund Morris lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris.


From the Trade Paperback edition.


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