| Abstrakt: |
Biography as literature lost one of its modern masters when Edmund Morris died in May. His magnum opus on Theodore Roosevelt, begun in the 1970s and completed a decade ago, made a forceful impression with its intimate, puckish embrace of the extraordinary TR, its immersion in detail and period context, its narrative pulse and verbal filigree. In this new biography, unexpectedly published posthumously, Morris deploys those extraordinary talents again to sculpt a staggeringly grand likeness of the American genius Thomas Alva Edison. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
