![]() ![]() But readers who appreciate Morris’s reputation for careful research will not be disappointed. Countless letters, newspaper articles, diary entries and other sources are parsed in search of unique insights and critical observations.Īt times, its 555 pages are dense and detailed – and yet this volume lacks the heavy-handed scholastic impression that often accompanies a book with more than 160 pages of endnotes. ![]() It feels like a biography written by a keen observer of people, and events, rather than one authored by an ivory-tower academic. Similar to its predecessor volume, “Theodore Rex” is unpretentious but erudite. The remainder of this biography covers his almost eight-year presidency in extensive and attentive – if not uniformly fascinating – depth. The first forty pages cover his breathless dash from a remote cabin in the Adirondack Mountains to take the oath of office in Buffalo. “Theodore Rex” conveniently picks up where “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” left off – with Vice President Roosevelt receiving word of President McKinley’s imminent death and his inheritance of the presidency. ![]() Morris spent much of that time working on his now-infamous memoir of Ronald Reagan. The series’ inaugural volume debuted in 1979 but more than two decades elapsed before this second volume was published in 2001. “ Theodore Rex” is the second volume in Edmund Morris’s highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt. ![]()
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