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Peter S. Prescott, book review critic for Newsweek magazine, argues that given the troubled state of the nation in 1979, the candidate most likely to succeed in the upcoming 1980 election would be Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1979
Selections and quotations from ten reviews of Edmund Morris’s The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, all of which are positive. The article closes with a look at Morris and the story behind the writing of the biography.
Advertisements for the Food Town grocery store chain and the Roosevelt Savings Bank are found on the second page of the article.
Theodore Roosevelt appeared on the cover of the August 6, 1979 issue of Newsweek magazine. The article notes that Roosevelt is depicted leading his Rough Rider regiment and that he is the subject of an essay in the issue by biographer Edmund Morris. The article quotes from a review of Morris’s biography, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, published in an April 1979 issue of Newsweek.