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Colonel Roosevelt
784 pages
A sweeping, cinematic portrait of a restless titan raging against the dying of the light.
What it feels like
Reading this final volume feels like trying to keep pace with a hurricane. The narrative is infused with the same restless, kinetic energy that defined its subject, sweeping you from the blood-soaked savannas of Africa to the treacherous rapids of the Amazon, and through the bitter, fractured landscape of early twentieth-century American politics. The prose is robust and cinematic, capturing both the exuberant highs of a man who refused to fade into quiet retirement and the poignant, creeping shadows of his physical decline. It is a deeply elegiac yet thrillingly adventurous reading experience. History enthusiasts and lovers of grand, character-driven epics will be captivated by this vivid exploration of mortality, legacy, and the sheer force of human will.
- Mood
- adventurous
- sweeping
- poignant
- restless
- Tone
- authoritative
- admiring
- elegiac
- vivid
- energetic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- twilight of a titan · relentless ambition · mortality and legacy · burden of greatness · political insurgency
- The writing
- Cinematic, robust, and meticulously detailed, with a novelist's flair for character and scene.
- The arc
- Moves from exuberant, restless energy through fierce political battles to a poignant, physically broken but spiritually unyielding end.
- Who it's for
- History buffs and biography lovers who crave sweeping, character-driven narratives about larger-than-life figures.
Content notes
- animal death
- illness and disease
- death of a child
- war themes
About the book
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize -- and National Book Award -- winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. - Publisher.
Description from Open Library.
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