About the Author

Edmund Morriswas born and educated in Kenya and attended college in South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. His first book,The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1980. Its sequel,Theodore Rex,won theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for Biography in 2001. In between these two books, Morris became President Reagan's authorized biographer and wrote the national bestsellerDutch- A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. He then completed his trilogy on the life of the twenty-sixth president withColonel Roosevelt,also a bestseller, and has publishedBeethoven- The Universal ComposerandThis Living Hand and Other Essays.Edisonis his final work of biography. He was married to fellow biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris for fifty-two years. Edmund Morris died in 2019.

Reviews

“Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
 
“Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence.”—The Atlantic Monthly
 
“[Morris’s] prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid, and his sense of narrative flow is nearly flawless. . . . The author re-creates a sense of the scene and an immediacy of the situation that any skilled writer should envy and the most jaded reader should find a joy.”—The Miami Herald
 
“A monumental work in every sense of the word . . . a book of pulsating and well-written narrative.”—The Christian Science Monitor