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A review by scottshepard
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5.0
Young Teddy Roosevelt’s life reads like a novel. Born into a well off family in New York just before the Civil War, his father instilled him with a solid core of virtues. Hard work, perseverance, and a thirst for life were Teddy’s driving forces.
Edmund Morris has made the complex and fascinating life of young Teddy very accessible. You can sense the admiration flowing from the page, but he is not slow to criticize decisions and actions of the ambitious man. He was quick to anger, did not do well with compromise, and may have been a bit too rigidly righteous for his own good.
This first of three volumes of President Roosevelt’s was utterly captivating. From birth to inauguration, Teddy Roosevelt: served in the New York House, then became the leader of a Republican faction in that house, ran a cattle ranch in the badlands of South Dakota, ran for Mayor of New York, was police commissioner of New York, was elected Governor of New York, served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, traveled through Europe twice, fought in Cuba with the rough riders, wrote several books including The Naval War of 1812 which was a seminal work in its field, and on and on.
This volume ends with his successful election to the office of Vice President under McKinley, McKinley assassination, and his appointment to President. I cannot wait to start into Theodore Rex, and see what this man does to be regarded and the best peacetime President ever.
Edmund Morris has made the complex and fascinating life of young Teddy very accessible. You can sense the admiration flowing from the page, but he is not slow to criticize decisions and actions of the ambitious man. He was quick to anger, did not do well with compromise, and may have been a bit too rigidly righteous for his own good.
This first of three volumes of President Roosevelt’s was utterly captivating. From birth to inauguration, Teddy Roosevelt: served in the New York House, then became the leader of a Republican faction in that house, ran a cattle ranch in the badlands of South Dakota, ran for Mayor of New York, was police commissioner of New York, was elected Governor of New York, served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, traveled through Europe twice, fought in Cuba with the rough riders, wrote several books including The Naval War of 1812 which was a seminal work in its field, and on and on.
This volume ends with his successful election to the office of Vice President under McKinley, McKinley assassination, and his appointment to President. I cannot wait to start into Theodore Rex, and see what this man does to be regarded and the best peacetime President ever.