Edmund Morris

Yeah.I mean, if you've ever...

Have you ever read Edmund Morris' bio of Teddy Roosevelt?

Mm-hmm.

It's gr- like, it's great.

But without these people, nothing would have happened in the administration.

Well, you mentioned Edmund Morris.

And when you say Theodore Roosevelt, you're talking about history.

Edmund Morris is the first name that comes to mind.

He won the Pulitzer for his book, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.

He did the trilogy, Theodore Rex, about his presidency.

Yeah, yeah.

And...

Still, they're worth considering.

Here's, uh, from Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris talking about Theodore Roosevelt in September 1901 taking over.

He summoned the heads of Washington's three press agencies.

"This being my first day in the White House as President of the United States," Roosevelt said, "I desire to have a little talk with you gentlemen who are responsible for the collection and dissemination of the news.

Wow.

So I typed in Theodore Rex and the first thing that has come up is a book by Edmund Morris.

And I'm guessing that that is not a novelization of the film.

What I have found, though, is Theodore Rex VHS 1996 Whoopi Goldberg Dinosaur Cop Dash Rare Cult Classic.

The president, responsible for a massive conventional and nuclear military buildup, thinks about his legacy and suffers constant flashbacks to the shooting throughout the film.

Though his motivations can never really be known, Reagan's own biographer, Edmund Morris, found him uniquely difficult to understand.

His belief in big ideas and American exceptionalism boom bombastically throughout the House.

Gorbachev, on the other hand, articulates a much clearer motivation for the meeting.

I always admired people with discipline.

One of the greatest books on discipline you'll ever read is The Rise of Teddy Roosevelt by Edmund Morris.

Teddy Roosevelt was this little kid with asthma,

bad asthma.

biographies comes in 1999.

And it was written by Edmund Morris.

It was called Dutch.

And he didn't know how to deal with a Reagan who was just giving him nothing.

Nonetheless, he managed to write a book that was 874 pages.

But interestingly, when he was trying... to get through to Reagan in order to assist him with this authorized biography.

He said, this is Edmund Morris, after three or four meetings, I realized that culturally, he was a yahoo and extremely unresponsive in conversation.

When you asked him a question about himself, it was like dropping a stone into a well and not hearing And he referred to the utter banality of his private conversation in contrast to the magic of his public performance.

And I do know some of the story.

It's covered well in Edmund Morris's books about Roosevelt, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.

There really was this guy.

He's one of these guys you hate if you're working with them, right? Oh, I'm all for this new plan.

Edison was, as we all know, a genius at invention and to put it charitably, a absolute disaster of business.

If you haven't read it, check out the book Edison by Edmund Morris.

Sometimes genius and business acumen do not become happy bedmates.

But Insull, Insull was the opposite.