Rise of Theodore Roosevelt or War Journal

Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Author: Edmund Morris

Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.


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The New York Times Books of the Century - Charles McGrath

....It is a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character.

Table of Contents:

	Prologue: New Year's Day, 1907
Pt. 1	1858-1886
1	The Very Small Person	3
2	The Mind, But Not the Body	30
3	The Man with the Morning in His Face	54
4	The Swell in the Dog Cart	80
5	The Political Hack	115
6	The Cyclone Assemblyman	140
7	The Fighting Cock	168
8	The Dude from New York	187
9	The Honorable Gentleman	213
10	The Delegate-at-Large	235
11	The Cowboy of the Present	261
12	The Four-Eyed Maverick	289
13	The Long Arm of the Law	313
14	The Next Mayor of New York	339
	Interlude: Winter of the Blue Snow, 1886-1887	363
Pt. 2	1887-1901
15	The Literary Feller	371
16	The Silver-Plated Reform Commissioner	400
17	The Dear Old Beloved Brother	438
18	The Universe Spinner	470
19	The Biggest Man in New York	494
20	The Snake in the Grass	534
21	The Glorious Retreat	563
22	The Hot Weather Secretary	588
23	The Lieutenant Colonel	618
24	The Rough Rider	646
25	The Wolf Rising in the Heart	661
26	The Most Famous Man in America	695
27	The Boy Governor	723
28	The Man of Destiny	747
	Epilogue: September 1901	775
	Acknowledgments	781
	Bibliography	783
	Notes	789
	Illustrations	891
	Index	895

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War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq

Author: Richard Engel

In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since Michael Herr's classic Dispatches, NBC News's award-winning Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel, offers an unvarnished and often emotional account of five years in Iraq.

Engel is the longest serving broadcaster in Iraq and the only American television reporter to cover the country continuously before, during, and after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Fluent in Arabic, he has had unrivaled access to U.S. military commanders, Sunni insurgents, Shiite militias, Iraqi families, and even President George W. Bush, who called him to the White House for a private briefing. He has witnessed nearly every major milestone in this long war.

War Journal describes what it was like to go into the hole where U.S. Special Operations Forces captured Saddam Hussein. Engel was there as the insurgency began and watched the spread of Iranian influence over Shiite religious cities and the Iraqi government. He watched as Iraqis voted in their first election. He was in the courtroom when Saddam was sentenced to death and interviewed General David Petraeus about the surge.

In vivid, sometimes painful detail, Engel tracks the successes and setbacks of the war. He describes searching, with U.S troops, for a missing soldier in the dangerous Sunni city of Ramadi; surviving kidnapping attempts, IED attacks, hotel bombings, and ambushes; and even the smell of cakes in a bakery attacked by sectarian gangs and strewn with bodies of the executed.

War Journal describes a sectarian war that American leaders were late to understand and struggled to contain. It is an account of the author's experiences, insights, bittersweetreflections, and moments from his private video diary -- itself the subject of a highly acclaimed documentary on MSNBC.

War Journal is the story of the transformation of a young journalist who moved to the Middle East with $2,000 and a belief that the region would be "the story" of his generation into a seasoned reporter who has at times believed that he would die covering the war. It is about American soldiers, ordinary Iraqis, and especially a few brave individuals on his team who continually risked their lives to make his own daring reporting possible.

Publishers Weekly

NBC News' Middle East bureau chief Engel (A Fist in the Hornet's Nest) tags along on marine patrols and survives his share of ambushes, truck bombs and kidnapping attempts in this riveting memoir of the Iraq War. His worm's-eye reportage of the spiraling carnage exposes the grisly details omitted from nightly newscasts-a dog carrying a severed human head, a massacre scene in a bakery redolent of sweet aromas and the merry trilling of a victim's cellphone-along with his own numbed reactions. His battles with network suits and right-wing bloggers who insist that he find good news to report are a leitmotif, as is his scrupulous discernment of the big picture beneath the chaos of war. Fluent in Arabic, with access to Iraqi prime ministers and insurgents as well as American leaders (including George W. Bush), he deftly elucidates the bitter rivalry between dethroned Sunnis and rising Shiites and, behind that, Iran's skillful consolidation of power in Iraq as the United States flounders. Engel's fine, heartfelt but disabused account of this bewildering conflict renders the suffering in Iraq with understanding and compassion. Photos. (June 3)

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