books by Edmund Morris     books:       The Pocket Book of Verse Washington Square Press, 1962 Another one of my grandmothers books from 1940, I really enjoyed this collection of poems from great writers that have stood the test of time like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Blake, Burns, Dickinson, Wordsworth, and so many more.             Theodore Rex [Deckle Edge] (Hardcover) Edmund Morris (Author), 2001             Random House Lives of The Presidents Edmund Morris, Geoffrey Perret Doubleday Books for Young Readers Two popular Republican presidents are explored in this pair of biographies. In the first, it's no surprise that the biographer of Douglas MacArthur and Ulysses S. Grant clearly conveys the military talents that enabled Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) to ensure the Allies' victory in World War II. But Geoffrey Perret is equally perceptive when dealing with the personality behind the famously genial grin. Perhaps marked by his father's coldness ...             The Western Horizon MacDuff Everton, Edmund Morris, ..., 2000 "Macduff Everton updates travel photography in the same way that Ansel Adams updated 19th-century photography of the West. He captures strange and eloquent moments in which time, and the world, seem to stand still."-Andy Grundberg, New York Times Only a handful of photographers have succeeded in capturing the majestic landscapes of the American West. Now, Macduff Everton takes his place among them, with magnificent panoramic photographs that ...             by Edmund's Colonel Roosevelt (Hardcover) (Colonel Roosevelt) Edmund Morris Random House, 2010             Ten Acres is Enough Edmund Morris Review Press, 2009 Recently we have seen a great back-to-the-land movement, with many young professional people returning to small scale farming; thus it is great fun to read about someone who did exactly the same thing in 1864. In that year, Mr. Edmund Morris gave up his business and city life for a farm of ten acres, made a go of mixed farming and then wrote a book about it. Mr. Morris proves Abraham Lincoln's prediction: 'The greatest fine art of the future ...             The Day Of The Triffids John Wyndham Demco Media, 2004 The triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world. The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world, he has survived to witness a new world. But the new world that awaits him is fantastic and horrific.             The Rough Riders (Modern Library War) Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Bak Modern Library, 1999 In 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators. This group of men, which became known as the Rough Riders, trained for four weeks in the Texas desert and then set sail for Cuba. Over the course of the summer, Roosevelt's Rough Riders fought valiantly, and sometimes recklessly, in the ...             The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris Random House Audio, 2010 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.             The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams Modern Library, 1999 'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams,' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.' His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors—great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams—Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. Printed privately in 1907 and published to wide ...             America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress, 1800-2000 James Conaway, Edmund Morris, 2000 The Library of Congress, considered by many to be the greatest library on earth, holds over 110 million items/books in 450 languages, irreplaceable national documents, priceless art works, and objects of cultural fascination. From a modest collection of 740 books purchased by the Congress in 1800, the Library has grown to house hundreds of miles of bookshelves. Laid end to end, they would stretch from Washington D.C., to Chicago. This book tells ...             Ten Acres Enough - The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming Edmund Morris Courthope Press, 2007 This early work on farming is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the experiences of a man setting up an independent farm and the challenges he faces. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in the skills of agriculture. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in ...             Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) Edmund Morris Harper Collins, 2005 “Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage—or should one say, duet—of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates.” — Christopher Buckley, Forbes “This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional—and inestimable—merit of being true.” — Washington Post Book World Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris ( The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, ...             Ten Acres Enough: Small-Farm Self-Sufficiency Through High-Quality Produce. A Back-to-the-Land Adventure from ... Edmund Morris Norton Creek Press, 2008 Ten years after Henry David Thoreau learned how to be a poor farmer, Edmund Morris learned how to be a good one. Ten Acres Enough is the personal story of how Morris quit the publishing business and achieved happiness and prosperity by farming ten acres of fruits and berries. Rather than glorifying poverty and isolation, Ten Acres Enough shows farming as the path to financial security, while still providing all the benefits of country ...             Theodore Rex Edmund Morris Random House, 2001 a             Edmund Morris's Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Bundle: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel ... Edmund Morris Random House, 2010             Power and the Presidency Robert A. Wilson, Stanley Marcus, ... PublicAffairs, 1999 This sterling collection of original, never-before-published essays on six fascinating contemporary presidents by some of the leading presidential biographers of our time is must reading for anyone interested in American politics, the history of the American presidency, or the lives of the presidents. Each essay—extending and elaborating on lectures originally delivered as part of the Montgomery Lecture Series at Dartmouth ...             Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) Edmund Morris Eminent Lives, 2005 new             This Living Hand: And Other Essays Random House, 2012 When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They cover forty years in the life of a maverick intellectual who can be, at whim, astonishingly ...              search for books 1800-2000, adventure, america, back-to-the-land, beethoven, classic, colonel, composer, congress, education, eminent, farming, hardcover, high-quality, horizon, independent, library, presidency, presidents, produce, quality, roosevelt, self-sufficiency, small-farm, sufficiency, theodore, through, triffids, trilogy, universal books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen The Cure for All Advanced Cancers home  impressum - about us