![]() ![]() ![]() Morris follows Roosevelt from birth, through education, early politics, time spent in the West, more politics, yet more politics, Cuba, and, finally, his brief time as Vice President. The family was very wealthy and very established, and Roosevelt’s father (also Theodore) was a dominating presence within it, a benevolent patriarch. He grew up in New York, but his mother was a southern belle and an active supporter of the Confederacy, which created some tense marital moments in an otherwise happy marriage. Roosevelt was born in 1858, and was therefore a small boy during the Civil War. ![]() The reader feels like he is practically living in the time, and that is a hard trick to pull off, especially for eight hundred pages. ![]() It wholly warrants its reputation-the writing is clear and compelling, the facts are relevant and interesting, and the author, Edmund Morris, treats the man through the lens of his time, not with any jarring ideological overlay imported from today. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is the best-known of modern biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, although it only covers his life up to his accession to the Presidency, in 1901. This is a forty-year-old biography that is as fresh today as it was in the 1970s. ![]()
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