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.
The Roosevelt Africa Expedition, 1909–1910
Chapter 1: Loss of Imperial Will
Chapter 2: The Most Famous Man in the World
Chapter 3: Honorabilem Theodorum
Chapter 5: The New Nationalism
Chapter 6: Not a Word, Gentlemen
Chapter 7: Showing the White Feather
Chapter 9: The Tall Timber of Darkening Events
Chapter 11: Onward, Christian Soldiers
Chapter 12: There Was No Other Place on His Body
Chapter 13: A Possible Autobiography
Chapter 14: A Vanished Elder World
Interlude: Germany, October–December, 1913
Chapter 15: Expediçào Cíentifica Roosevelt-Rondon
Chapter 16: Alph, the Sacred River
Chapter 17: A Wrong Turn Off Appel Quay
Chapter 18: The Great Accident
Chapter 19: A Hurricane of Steel
Chapter 20: Two Melancholy Men
Chapter 21: Barnes v. Roosevelt
Chapter 23: The Man Against the Sky
Chapter 24: Shadows of Lofty Words
Chapter 25: Dust in a Windy Street
Chapter 26: The House on the Hill
Chapter 27: The Dead Are Whirling with the Dead