The rise of Theodore Roosevelt
By: Edmund Morris
Edition: Random House 2010 hardcover ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 920
ISBN-13: 9781400069651
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Biography
Description: A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, covering the years from his birth in 1858 to 1901 when, with the death of President McKinley, he became the youngest president of the United States.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1979; this updated version first appeared as a trade paperback by Modern Library, 2001.

Continued by: Theodore Rex.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [783]-788) and index.
Table of contents: title: New Year's Day, 1907; title: pt. 1. 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 ; 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; title: Interlude: Winter of the blue snow, 1886-1887; title: pt. 2. 1887-1901 : The literary feller ; The silver-plated reform commissioner; title: The dear old beloved brother; title: The universe spinner; title: The biggest man in New York; title: The snake in the grass; title: 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; title: September 1901.