The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.

MORRIS, Edmund.

Item Number: 1992

New York: Random House, 2010.

First edition of the re-issue of the first book in the author’s acclaimed “Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy”. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Edmund Morris is an American writer best known for his presidential biographies. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won a Pulitzer Prize and the 1980 National Book Award in Biography, The Rise covers the time from Roosevelt's birth through his ascendancy to the Presidency, and Theodore Rex is"[e]pic in scope and vast in detail" (City Journal).