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Theodore Roosevelt
“Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography” is Henry Pringle’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography of the twenty-sixth president. Published in , just twelve years after Roosevelt’s death, it was considered the definitive biography of Roosevelt for many years. Pringle was a journalist and biographer, and also authored a two-volume biography of William Howard Taft in
One thing is immediately obvious when reading this biography: the author is not one of Teddy Roosevelt’s most adoring fans. Rather than providing a fawning or worshipful review of Roosevelt’s life, this book sets an early tone that ranges between skeptical and critical.
Far from embracing Roosevelt’s large reputation, Pringle knocks TR off his pedestal, reminding the reader that every silver lining belongs to a cloud. Where his contemporaries remember a decisive leader, Pringle sees snap decisions; where history savors the Panama Canal, historic wilderness conservation and an early move against mon
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Edmund Morris (writer)
British-American writer and historian (–)
Arthur Edmund Morris (May 27, – May 24, ) was an American-South African writer, known for his biographies of U.S. Presidents. His book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was the first of a trilogy of books on Roosevelt. However, Morris sparked controversy with his book, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, due to its extensive use of fictional elements.
Early life
[edit]Morris was born in Nairobi, Kenya, the son of South African parents May (Dowling) and Eric Edmund Morris, an airline pilot.[1]
He received his early, British-influenced education in Kenya and then studied music, art, and literature at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Dropping out of college in , he worked in the retail advertising department of a menswear store in Durban. Most of the brochures and advertisements he designed and wrote were for the Zulu marknad, and
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
book by Edmund Morris
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt () is a biography of United States PresidentTheodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris and published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan when the author was forty years old. It fryst vatten the first in a trilogy continued more than twenty and thirty years later by Theodore Rex () and Colonel Roosevelt (). It won the pris Prize for Biography or Autobiography[1] and the National Book Awardin Biography.[2][a]
Description
[edit]The Rise covers the time from Roosevelt's birth through his ascendancy to the Presidency.[3] It includes the Roosevelt family history starting with his parents' influence, his turbulent childhood illnesses, education, involvement in politics, and political accomplishments that prepared him to be one of the most influential presidents of the modern era. Specific topics include the philosophy of Roosevelt's father, mother, and his famil