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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Grondahl, Paul, 1959- I rose like a rocket. New York : Free Press, c2004 (OCoLC)607345668 Online version: Grondahl, Paul, 1959- I rose like a rocket. New York : Free Press, c2004 (OCoLC)609045632 |
| Named Person: | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Grondahl |
| ISBN: | 074322731X 9780743227315 |
| OCLC Number: | 54500944 |
| Description: | ix, 448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Practical politics -- Beginnings -- Harvard -- Assembly -- Tragedy -- Badlands -- Washington -- Police commissioner -- Rough rider -- Governor -- Vice president -- Ride to the presidency. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Grondahl. |
Abstract:
""Albany Times Union" reporter Grondahl does an outstanding job of documenting Theodore Roosevelt's evolution from brash young political reformer to shrewd and pragmatic political operator, always with his eye on various idealistic prizes."--"Publishers Weekly."
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Joseph E. Persico<p>author of "11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour: Armistice Day 1918" <p>If the boy is father to the man, then his multiple earlier lives produced the pyrotechnic presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. This evolution is insightfully demonstrated in Paul Grondahl's richly researched and compellingly readable portrait of TR before the White House. Grondahl calls his work a "political education." It is more aptly a shrewd grasp of the interplay of the personal and the political in Roosevelt's formation. With this performance, a new talent enters the front ranks of American biography.<p> Read more...
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