Summary of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography by Edmund Morris that charts the life of the 26th President of the United States, from the death of his father Theodore Roosevelt Sr. in 1878 to his death in 1919. The book surveys Roosevelt’s days at Harvard, his brief career as a rancher in the Dakotas, his rise to the highest office in the land after a tumultuous term as New York City Police Commissioner, his 1901 assassination of an anarchist, his trustbusting, foreign-policy making, environmentalism, and finally, his death in the midst of World War I. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt offers a detailed look into Roosevelt’s life and times, a portrait of the dedicated and activist president whose 20th-century American ideals we still hold in the 21st.