Edmund Morris
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They cover forty years in the life of a maverick intellectual who can be, at whim, astonishingly...
4) Theodore Rex
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Language
English
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Edmund Morris chronicles Theodore Roosevelt's years in the White House, including his many crisis and achievements. Morris also explores Roosevelt's family life as well taking a look at Roosevelt's political critics.
5) Edison
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas 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...