![]() ![]() Once the fiery, incorrigibly combative Roosevelt left the White House at the age of 50, what could he do for an encore? He had one glimmer of an idea: to disappear, or at least do so as completely as a man leading a large safari and press contingent through Africa could. “Theodore Rex” ended with one of the great presidential cliffhangers. And if this story of a lifetime is his own life’s work, he has reason to be immensely proud. ![]() Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Roosevelt’s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. ![]() And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Now with “Colonel Roosevelt,” the magnum opus is complete. Morris to complete his installment about the Roosevelt presidency, “Theodore Rex,” which arrived in 2001. This led to the biography’s Pulitzer Prize-winning first volume, “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,” in 1979. He began by writing a screenplay about the young Roosevelt’s cattle ranching years in the Dakota Territory. Edmund Morris has devoted more than half that time to writing a magisterial three-volume Roosevelt biography. ![]() Theodore Roosevelt lived for 60 hale, hearty, prodigiously adventurous years. ![]()
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