The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Thirty years ago,The Rise of Theodore Rooseveltwon both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A collector’s item in its original edition, it has never been out of print as a paperback. This classic book is now reissued in hardcover, along withTheodore Rex, to coincide with the publication ofColonel Roosevelt, the third and concluding volume of Edmund Morris’s definitive trilogy on the life of the twenty-sixth President. Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the White House (1901–1909),The Rise of Theodore Rooseveltbegins with a brilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands, more than any man before him. Morris re-creates the reception with such authentic detail that the reader gets almost as vivid an impression of TR as those who attended. One visitor remar