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...summer, David McCullough's "John Adams" has sat at the top of the best-seller lists. Joseph Ellis' "Founding Brothers" has been on the list for nine months. This fall, Edmund Morris' "Theodore Rex", the second volume of his Theodore Roosevelt biography (the first was his splendid "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"), will have a first printing of over 200,000. Doris Kearns Goodwin, having already studied the Kennedys and the Franklin Roosevelts to handsome effect, is hard at work on Abraham Lincoln...
Before the uproar two years ago over Dutch, his quasi-fictional biography of Ronald Reagan, Edmund Morris was the acclaimed author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, a wise and supremely readable account of T.R.'s first 42 years that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. In a move that could restore his reputation among people who found his account of Reagan a hard one to swallow, Morris is ready now with his long-awaited second volume on the 26th President, Theodore Rex. This one is devoted to Teddy's energetic presidency, which ranged from trustbusting at home to peacemaking...
...successful political life, lived in the moment, in the arena, demands a certain amount of fraud, or to put it kindly, demands political artifice - adrenaline, ego, smiles, bared canines, plumage display. Franklin Roosevelt was one of the great presidential artificers. Clinton...
...autobiography occurs in a different dimension, a different part of the mind, and, quite literally, in a different region of time. While autobiography demands artifice, it also requires introspection and an order of a ruthless candor. What would Franklin Roosevelt's autobiography have been like? Dodgey piffle, perhaps. King and poet have different roles to play...
...Theodore Roosevelt didn't create the national-forest system for the benefit of oil companies, gold miners and all-terrain-vehicle manufacturers. We have wolves in Yellowstone and no drilling because of your voices. Wake up, Americans, and protect the public lands as though you owned them--because you do. Your voices will make a difference. JAY F. KIRKPATRICK Billings, Mont...