WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ? The acclaimed author of Theodore Rex presents "a towering biography [and] brilliant chronicle" (Time) of Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States.

One of Modern Library's 100 best nonfiction books of all time ? One of Esquire's 50 best biographies of all time

"Magnificent... one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment." -- The New York Times Book Review

During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading "Roosevelt's Rough Riders" in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his "spare hours" he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called "that damned cowboy" was vice president. Seven months later, an assassin's bullet gave Roosevelt the national leadership he had always craved.

This classic biography is the story of seven men -- a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician -- who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history.

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• Publication Date: November 24, 2010
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