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If you harbor doubts that Theodore Roosevelt was larger than life, consider the events of Oct. 14, 1912, as recounted in Colonel Roosevelt, the third and final volume in Edmund Morris' monumental ...
With "Colonel Roosevelt," historian Edmund Morris wraps up a highly praised biography of Theodore Roosevelt that began 30 years ago with "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and continued in 2001 ...
New Biography of Roosevelt Daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, was famous in her own right.
Call this a biography by indirection. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defined by competing individuals and movements: Huey Long, Father Coughlan, Al Smith, the Liberty League, Earl Browder and the ...
Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt (and the author of a critically panned biography of Ronald Reagan), has returned with the third and final volume of his ...
On October 28, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt was born into one of the wealthiest and most well-established families in New York. His father, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., was a descendant of the original ...
Eleanor Roosevelt during a radio broadcast in 1948. Volume II, on the Great Depression and New Deal years of 1933-38, continued Cook’s account of the Hick-ER relationship, with its “arc of ...
Eleanor Roosevelt served her country faithfully as first lady – but according to a new biography, she was not always faithful to her husband, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly released final volume is exhausting and exhilarating.
The prestige that Mr. Morris acquired from the Roosevelt biography, plus the promised access to Reagan, were enough to land Mr. Morris a $3 million advance from Random House for a Reagan biography ...