![]() ![]() He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. Had he not died in 1919, at the early age of sixty, he would unquestionably have been reelected to a third term in the White House and completed the work he began in 1901 of establishing the United States as a model democracy, militarily strong and socially just.įor this lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris will discuss the final volume of his awardwinning three-part biography of Theodore Roosevelt covering the last ten years of Roosevelt’s life.Įdmund Morris was born and educated in Kenya and went to college in South Africa. Once the war began, Roosevelt went on to laud the men of the Seventh Regiment for their bravery as early volunteers to the front. ![]() Had Roosevelt won his historic “Bull Moose” campaign in 1912 (when he outpolled the sitting president, William Howard Taft), he might have averted World War I, so great was his international influence. ![]() When he toured Europe in 1910 as plain “Colonel Roosevelt,” he was hailed as the most famous man in the world. Of all our great Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. ![]() Malkin Lecture Series: Colonel Roosevelt November 7, 2011 ![]()
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