Colonel Roosevelt /

This biography by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author recounts the last decade of Theodore Roosevelt's amazing life.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Edmund (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2010]
Edition:Advance uncorrected proofs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. The Roosevelt Africa Expedition, 1909-1910
  • pt. I. 1910-1913: Loss of imperial will ; The most famous man in the world ; Honorabilem Theodorum ; A native oyster ; The new nationalism ; Not a word, gentlemen ; Showing the white feather ; Hat in the ring ; The tall timber of darkening events ; Armageddon ; Onward, Christian soldiers ; There was no other place on his body ; A possible autobiography ; A vanished elder world
  • Interlude : Germany, October-December, 1913
  • pt. II. 1914-1919: Expediçào Cíentifica Roosevelt-Rondon Alph, the sacred river ; A wrong turn off Appel Quay ; The Great Accident ; A hurricane of steel ; Two melancholy men ; Barnes v. Roosevelt ; Waging peace ; The man against the sky ; Shadows of lofty words ; Dust in a windy street ; The house on the hill ; The dead are whirling with the dead ; Sixty
  • Epilogue: In memoriam T.R.