***NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER • A *NEW YORK TIMES* NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, *The Washington Post*** **This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of *The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt* and *Theodore Rex,* marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive.** Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. **“Hair-raising . . . awe-inspiring . . . a worthy close to a trilogy sure to be regarded as one of the best studies not just of any president, but of any American.”— *San Francisco Chronicle* **