The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt entered Harvard as a frail boy with severe asthma and emerged as a boxer, naturalist, rancher, author, and soldier who would accidentally become the youngest president in history. Morris follows Roosevelt through the Dakota Badlands, the New York City Board of Police Commissioners, and the Spanish-American War, meticulously chronicling the triumphs and tragedies of his improbable life. The book ↗ is a portrait of a Renaissance man whose inexhaustible energy and will reinvigorated a complacent, late-nineteenth-century America.