Like Robert Caro with Lyndon Johnson, Morris has devoted a career to one man with equally impressive results. Despite losing, only death interrupted Roosevelt's outpouring of political maneuvering, journalism, scholarship, exploration, and profuse, generally unwelcome advice to President Wilson. The rank-and file adored Roosevelt, but Republican leaders didn't, so he abandoned the party for the historic three-way 1912 campaign, during which two progressives, Roosevelt and Wilson, battled it out, and Taft came in third. The outgoing chief executive (1858–1919) welcomed his successor, William Howard Taft, and left the country for a year, but on his return plunged back into politics, angry at Taft's backsliding on reform. As Morris says, TR's presidency was an impossible act to follow. He died after a stroke on at the age of 78.Having followed his 1979 classic, Pulitzer-winning The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, with a fine account of his presidency, Theodore Rex, in 2001, historian Morris returns to top form in this enthralling story of Roosevelt's life after leaving office in 1909. He also wrote about travel and the arts for numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper's Magazine.

He was best known for Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, where he inserted himself as a fictional narrator.

His other books included Theodore Rex, Beethoven: The Universal Composer, Colonel Roosevelt, and Edison.

He won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1980 for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. He worked in the advertising department of a men's clothing store in South Africa and as an advertising copywriter in London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. He studied literature, art, and music at Rhodes University in South Africa before leaving in 1961. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 11064 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).Īrthur Edmund Morris was born in Nairobi, Kenya on May 27, 1940. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin's bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive.

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