{"product_id":"colonel-roosevelt-9780375504877","title":"Colonel Roosevelt","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK - \"Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.\"--Fred Kaplan, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTheodore Rex, \u003c\/i\u003e marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOf all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin's bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePacked with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hair-raising . . . awe-inspiring . . . a worthy close to a trilogy sure to be regarded as one of the best studies not just of any president, but of any American.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund Morris\u003c\/b\u003e was born and educated in Kenya and attended college in South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1980. Its sequel, \u003ci\u003eTheodore Rex, \u003c\/i\u003e won the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Biography in 2001. In between these two books, Morris became President Reagan's authorized biographer and wrote the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eDutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan\u003c\/i\u003e. He then completed his trilogy on the life of the twenty-sixth president with \u003ci\u003eColonel Roosevelt, \u003c\/i\u003e also a bestseller, and has published \u003ci\u003eBeethoven: The Universal Composer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Living Hand and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eEdison\u003c\/i\u003e is his final work of biography. He was married to fellow biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris for fifty-two years. Edmund Morris died in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911226364178,"sku":"9780375504877","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_df28140c-49a8-4597-98f1-889d5c7f8719.jpg?v=1738734325","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/colonel-roosevelt-9780375504877","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}