Word: morrises
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The antinuclear movement, already thriving as an amalgam of the intellectually concerned and the idealistic young, who can scarcely find any other cause available that is both so tangible and satisfyingly antigovernment and antiEstablishment, doubtless will now gain new recruits, especially from people who live near the 39 proposed sites...
THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT by Edmund Morris
Theodore Roosevelt is one of those figures who cannot be fully calibrated without the distance of history and the views of an outsider. This towering biography is the first to answer both requisites. Edmund Morris is a journalist who was raised in Kenya; his portrait of a man and an...
Orchestrating his material with a certainty and lightness of touch, Morris shuns facile psychohistory and lets Roosevelt's life build its own edifice. Contemporaries who tried to describe Teddy liked superhuman analogies: "He really believes he is the American flag," said one. Yet the man was something less, and...
At 18, he published his first book, a landmark study of birds; at 22, he climbed the Matterhorn and shocked society by joining a New York City political club dominated by working-class Irishmen. The ward heelers did not know what to make of this nattily dressed dude with a...