On the morning of March 4, 1933 an air of tense expectancy pervaded America. The country was experiencing its worst year yet of the Depression, the nation's banks had been closed, and most Americans ...

Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt (and the author of a critically panned biography of Ronald Reagan), has returned with the third and final volume of his ...

On October 28, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt was born into one of the wealthiest and most well-established families in New York. His father, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., was a descendant of the original group ...

If you harbor doubts that Theodore Roosevelt was larger than life, consider the events of Oct. 14, 1912, as recounted in Colonel Roosevelt, the third and final volume in Edmund Morris ' monumental ...

How can one write history so that it seems like a thriller? How does one write a biography without making the subject the centerpiece of the narrative? I have no idea if David Pietrusza asked himself ...

With "Colonel Roosevelt," historian Edmund Morris wraps up a highly praised biography of Theodore Roosevelt that began 30 years ago with "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and continued in 2001 with ...

THIS is a ‘personal' rather than an ‘intimate’ biography, and the reader learns almost as much of Mr. Thayer’s views on recent public questions as of Roosevelt’s creed and conduct. The earlier ...