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Colonel Roosevelt

book by Edmund Morris

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5148173 ↗
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Colonel Roosevelt (2010) is a biography of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt written by author Edmund Morris released on November 23, 2010. It is the third volume of a trilogy, following the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) and Theodore Rex (2001).

Colonel Roosevelt covers the years after Theodore Roosevelt leaves the presidency in 1909 to his death in 1919.

References

Morris, Edmund. (2010). Colonel Roosevelt New York: Random House.

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The public source identifies “Colonel Roosevelt” as book by Edmund Morris. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Colonel, Roosevelt and book.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 1979, 2001, 1909—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Colonel, Roosevelt and book providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5148173. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 1979, 2001 and 1909.

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This entry incorporates text from “Colonel Roosevelt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.