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Colonel Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

What does a larger than life president do once he leaves office, from an African safari to a new run for power and a Brazilian jungle?

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Author
Edmund Morris

Why read it

  • You will see what a powerful person does with life after power, and what it can cost
  • You will learn how restless energy after the top job can carry a person into real danger, from Africa to the Brazilian jungle
  • You will understand how illness, old wounds and grief can wear down even the most vigorous person

Who it is for

  • Readers of American political history who like the human side
  • Anyone facing life after a big job or title
  • Biography fans drawn to restless, larger than life people

Contents

  1. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  2. PROLOGUE The Roosevelt Africa Expedition, 1909–1910
  3. PART ONE 1910–1913
  4. CHAPTER 1 Loss of Imperial Will
  5. CHAPTER 2 The Most Famous Man in the World
  6. CHAPTER 3 Honorabilem Theodorum
  7. CHAPTER 4 A Native Oyster
  8. CHAPTER 5 The New Nationalism
  9. CHAPTER 6 Not a Word, Gentlemen
  10. CHAPTER 7 Showing the White Feather
  11. CHAPTER 8 Hat in the Ring
  12. CHAPTER 9 The Tall Timber of Darkening Events
  13. CHAPTER 10 Armageddon
  14. CHAPTER 11 Onward, Christian Soldiers
  15. CHAPTER 12 There Was No Other Place on His Body
  16. CHAPTER 13 A Possible Autobiography
  17. CHAPTER 14 A Vanished Elder World
  18. Interlude Germany, October–December, 1913
  19. PART TWO 1914–1919
  20. CHAPTER 15 Expediçào Cíentífica Roosevelt-Rondon
  21. CHAPTER 16 Alph, the Sacred River
  22. CHAPTER 17 A Wrong Turn Off Appel Quay
  23. CHAPTER 18 The Great Accident
  24. CHAPTER 19 A Hurricane of Steel
  25. CHAPTER 20 Two Melancholy Men
  26. CHAPTER 21 Barnes v. Roosevelt
  27. CHAPTER 22 Waging Peace
  28. CHAPTER 23 The Man Against the Sky
  29. CHAPTER 24 Shadows of Lofty Words
  30. CHAPTER 25 Dust in a Windy Street
  31. CHAPTER 26 The House on the Hill
  32. CHAPTER 27 The Dead Are Whirling with the Dead
  33. CHAPTER 28 Sixty
  34. EPILOGUE In Memoriam T.R.
  35. ARCHIVES

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