title: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
author:  Edmund Morris 
description: <b>Praise for <i>The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt</i></b><br /> <br /> Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /> <br /> A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle.<i>Time</i><br /> <br /> Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country.<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i><br /> <br /> Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence.<i>The Atlantic Monthly</i><br /> <br /> [Morriss] prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid, and his sense of narrative flow is nearly flawless. . . . The author re-creates a sense of the scene and an immediacy of the situation that any skilled writer should envy and the most jaded reader should find a joy.<i>The Miami Herald</i><br /> <br /> A monumental work in every sense of the word . . . a book of pulsating and well-written narrative.<i>The Christian Science Monitor</i><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  # PRAISE FOR  
  THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  
  
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  _“Reading Morris’s comprehensive, necessarily breathless account of
  Roosevelt’s rise is like riding a cannonball express through the Rockies, the
  peaks whipping past, one exceeding another in magnificence.”_
  
  
  —MORDECAI RICHLER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _“Morris has written a monumental work in every sense of the word.… The result
  is a book of pulsating and well-written narrative, documented by well over 100
  pages of minute, immaculate notes. An average reader will take a long time to
  read and absorb it all. But read it he will. The tale never lags, like its
  unique human subject.”_
  
  
  —EDWIN TETLOW, _The Christian Science Monitor_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _“His prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid, and his sense of
  narrative flow is nearly flawless.… The author recreates a sense of the scene
  and an immediacy of the situation that any skilled writer should envy and the
  most jaded reade