Picks and Pans Review: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

UPDATED 12/24/1979 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 12/24/1979 at 01:00 AM EST

by Edmund Morris

We won't have TR's canal much longer, but his ambition, verve and unexcelled egocentricity live in an uncompromising biography.

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