The rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Biography of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, detailing his life from birth (1858) to his ascendancy to the Presidency (1901). This is the first book in Edmund Morris's trilogy on Roosevelt (followed by Theodore Rex and Colonel Roosevelt). It won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Bibliography or Autobiography and the 1980 National Book Award in Biography.
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- Truman: https://www.amazon.com/Truman-David-McCullough/dp/1442387807
Grant: https://www.amazon.com/Grant/dp/178854160X
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt: https://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Modern-Library-Pap...
- If you haven't already, read The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. One of the best biographies I have ever read.
- Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar both by Philip Freeman. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris.
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- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is excellent.
- If you're looking for a great book like this, I cannot possibly recommend anything higher than Edmund Morris' The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris' writing is masterful and gripping. It seriously reads like an adventure novel.
https://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Morriss-Theodore-Roosevelt-Tri...
- Edmund Morris: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is an amazing biography. It read like an adventure novel.
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