The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.

MORRIS, Edmund.

$750.00

Item Number: 145164

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979.

Later printing of the first book in the author’s acclaimed Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Signed by Edmund Morris on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Regine de Toledo. Author photograph by Ian Keown.

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).