Colonel Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
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Colonel Roosevelt

Author: Edmund Morris

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Unabridged: 24 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2010


Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK •  “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post

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.

Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. 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.

“Hair-raising . . . awe-inspiring . . . a worthy close to a trilogy sure to be regarded as one of the best studies not just of any president, but of any American.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Wendy on 2011-04-01 12:42:59

This is a tedious audiobook to wade thru. When a disc was over, I wouldn't even remember anything .....maybe the book was better. Discs didn't work right either, lots of skipping.

Goodreads review by Jim on September 07, 2020

This is the third book in Morris’ TR trilogy, and once again it’s great. This book covers the last ten years of Roosevelt’s life - his post-presidency - and somehow it’s just as action-packed as the other amazing periods of his life. Roosevelt’s last ten years included his “Man in the Arena” speech,......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 26, 2011

I have completed now the third volume of Edmund Morris's monumental three-volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt. As I finished the first volume (THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT), I felt certain it was the best biography I had ever read. The second volume (THEODORE REX) gave me no reason to change my......more


Quotes

“Now with Colonel Roosevelt, the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Roosevelt’s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own life’s work, he has reason to be immensely proud.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Exemplary . . . Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subject. . . . The [Theodore Roosevelt] trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency.”Los Angeles Times

“Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note you’re in inspired hands. In Colonel Roosevelt—the final installment in a trilogy that began with The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex—Morris registers the Bull Moose’s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse.”The Washingtonian

Colonel Roosevelt, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris’ work. It is popular history at its best.”—Claude R. Marx, The Washington Times