Edmund Morris
3) Theodore Rex
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, following his life and activities during his presidency, from his emergency oath of office in 1901 following the death of assassinated President McKinley, to his departure from office nearly eight years later.
5) Edison
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Thomas Alva Edison's invention of the first practical incandescent lamp 140 years ago so dazzled the world that it cast a shadow over his later achievements. In all, this near-deaf genius patented 1,093 inventions, not including those he left unlicensed for the benefit of medicine.Morris portrays the unknown...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--Dutch is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. Thirteen years of exhaustive research in the archives of Washington and Hollywood, and thousands of hours of interviews with the President and his family, friends, allies, and enemies, equipped Morris with an unmatched knowledge of one of the twentieth century's greatest...
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