THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
by Edmund Morris
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Edmund Morris was born in Kenya and educated at the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi, and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before emigrating to the United States in 1968. His biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1980. In 1985 he was appointed Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's , and The Washington Pos t. The second volume of his Roosevelt biography, Theodore Rex , is currently under way, and will be followed by a third. Edmund Morris lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Atlanta Vintage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64962
- Title
- THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
- Author
- Edmund Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
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- Used - Very Good -
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- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- American History
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