the rise of theodore roosevelt hardcover

It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves, the author writes, and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people. This book, the only full study of TRs pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive. His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes.

Seven months later, an assassins bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called that damned cowboy was vice president. In what he called his spare hours he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. After leading Roosevelts Rough Riders in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. The rest of this book tells the story of TRs irresistible rise to power. One visitor remarked afterward, You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk-and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes. That was on New Years 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. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. a brilliant chronicle.-Time This classic biography is the story of seven men-a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician-who merged at age forty-two to be the youngest President in history. Book Synopsis WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - One of Modern Librarys 100 best nonfiction books of all time - One of Esquires 50 best biographies of all time A towering biography.

Now back in print, it is winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. About the Book Described by the Chicago Tribune as a classic, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time.

The rise of theodore roosevelt hardcover