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The rise of Theodore Roosevelt / Edmund Morris.
LIBRA E757 .M883 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Edmund, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1901-1909.
- New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- New York (State).
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
- Roosevelt, Theodore.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 886 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [1979]
- Summary:
- A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, covering the years 1858 to 1901, before he became the youngest President of the United States.
- Contents:
- Prologue : New Year's Day, 1907
- Part one : 1858-1886. The very small person
- The mind, but not the body
- The man with the morning in his face
- The swell in the dog cart
- The political hack
- The cyclone Assemblyman
- The fighting cock
- The dude from New York
- The honorable gentleman from the Twenty-First
- The Delegate At Large
- The cowboy of the present
- The four-eyed maverick
- The long arm of the law
- The next mayor of New York
- Interlude : Winter of the blue snow, 1886-1887
- Part two : 1887-1901. The literary feller
- The silver plated Reform Commissioner
- The dear old beloved brother
- The universe spinner
- The biggest man in New York
- The snake in the grass
- The glorious retreat
- The hot weather Secretary
- The Lieutenant Colonel
- The Rough Rider
- The wolf rising in the heart
- The most famous man in America
- The boy governor
- The man of destiny
- Epilogue : September 1901.
- Notes:
- Pulitzer Prize, 1980.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 745-751) and index.
- Continued by: Theodore Rex.
- ISBN:
- 0698107837
- 9780698107830
- 0375756787
- 9780375756788
- OCLC:
- 4493254
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