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Colonel Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

Paperback, 766 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $18 |

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Author: Edmund Morris

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Book Summary

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt presents a chronicle of the last ten years of the 26th president's life to cover his African safaris, presidency and various brushes with death.

Genres:

Nonfiction
Biography & Memoir

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