Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt (and the author of a critically panned biography of Ronald Reagan), has returned with the third and final volume of his ...

If you harbor doubts that Theodore Roosevelt was larger than life, consider the events of Oct. 14, 1912, as recounted in Colonel Roosevelt, the third and final volume in Edmund Morris ' monumental ...

With "Colonel Roosevelt," historian Edmund Morris wraps up a highly praised biography of Theodore Roosevelt that began 30 years ago with "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and continued in 2001 with ...

With seven decades having passed since the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, views about the 32nd president have become somewhat set in stone. As a leader, Roosevelt (1882-1945) is honored for ...

A 2013 Princeton analyst’s online study charted the most and least respected professions in America. For contempt, politician ranked a bit better than prostitute. It’s unlikely that public opinion has ...

How can one write history so that it seems like a thriller? How does one write a biography without making the subject the centerpiece of the narrative? I have no idea if David Pietrusza asked himself ...

Dreamworks, the studio that previously brought us Lincoln, from director Steven Spielberg, based on the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, has acquired the rights to another book by Goodwin, the upcoming ...

Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...

Last things first. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the third volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental biography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the way it ends. I don't think I've ever read another ...