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Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one

whose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in

1910 as plain “Colonel Roosevelt,” he was hailed as the most famous

man in the world. Crowned heads vied to put him up in their

palaces. “If I see another king,” he joked, “I think I shall bite

him.”

Had TR won his historic “Bull Moose” campaign in

1912 (when he outpolled the sitting president, William Howard

Taft), he might have averted World War I, so great was his

international influence. Had he not died in 1919, at the early age

of sixty, he would unquestionably have been reelected to a third

term in the White House and completed the work he began in 1901 of

establishing the United States as a model democracy, militarily

strong and socially just.

This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer

Prize and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of

Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, is itself the completion of a

trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Packed with more adventure,

variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented

down to the smallest fact, it recounts the last decade of perhaps

the most amazing life in American history. What other president has

written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party,

survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer

than the Rhine?

Colonel Roosevelt begins with a prologue

recounting what TR called his “journey into the Pleistocene”—a

yearlong safari through East Africa, collecting specimens for the

Smithsonian. Some readers will be repulsed by TR’s bloodlust, which

this book does not prettify, yet there can be no denying that the

Colonel passionately loved and understood every living thing that

came his way: The text is rich in quotations from his marvelous

nature writing.

Although TR intended to remain out of politics

when he returned home in 1910, a fateful decision that spring drew

him back into public life. By the end of the summer, in his famous

“New Nationalism” speech, he was the guiding spirit of the

Progressive movement, which inspired much of the social agenda of

the future New Deal. (TR’s fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt

acknowledged that debt, adding that the Colonel “was the greatest

man I ever knew.”)

Then follows a detailed account of TR’s

reluctant yet almost successful campaign for the White House in

1912. But unlike other biographers, Edmund Morris does not treat TR

mainly as a politician. This volume gives as much consideration to

TR’s literary achievements and epic expedition to Brazil in

1913–1914 as to his fatherhood of six astonishingly different

children, his spiritual and aesthetic beliefs, and his eager

embrace of other cultures—from Arab and Magyar to German and

American Indian. It is impossible to read Colonel Roosevelt and not

be awed by the man’s universality. The Colonel himself remarked, “I

have enjoyed life as much as any nine men I know.”

Morris does not hesitate, however, to show how

pathologically TR turned upon those who inherited the power he

craved—the hapless Taft, the adroit Woodrow Wilson. When Wilson

declined to bring the United States into World War I in 1915 and

1916, the Colonel blasted him with some of the worst abuse ever

uttered by a former chief executive. Yet even Wilson had to admit

that behind the Rooseveltian will to rule lay a winning idealism

and decency. “He is just like a big boy—there is a sweetness about

him that you can’t resist.” That makes the story of TR’s last year,

when the “boy” in him died, all the sadder in the telling: the

conclusion of a life of Aristotelian grandeur.

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他将自己刻画成一个真命天子、一位先知、一个受过教育的改革者、一名跟敌对势力斗争到底的独裁者。。在他撰写的众多书籍中，他的三部曲应该是最能够完整表现他的个性特征的作品了，在《农场主的狩猎之旅》《牧场生活和狩猎》《荒野猎人》这三部书中，罗斯福展现了自己暴力十足的杀戮欲，以及他对自己所要射杀的生物的温柔情感，这种大相径庭得对立情感的结合是在很难被常人理解。

书籍介绍

Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in 1910 as plain “Colonel Roosevelt,” he was hailed as the most famous man in the world. Crowned heads vied to put him up in their palaces. “If I see another king,” he joked, “I think I shall bite him.”

Had TR won his historic “Bull Moose” campaign in 1912 (when he outpolled the sitting president, William Howard Taft), he might have averted World War I, so great was his international influence. Had he not died in 1919, at the early age of sixty, he would unquestionably have been reelected to a third term in the White House and completed the work he began in 1901 of establishing the United States as a model democracy, militarily strong and socially just.

This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, is itself the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, it recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine?

Colonel Roosevelt begins with a prologue recounting what TR called his “journey into the Pleistocene”—a yearlong safari through East Africa, collecting specimens for the Smithsonian. Some readers will be repulsed by TR’s bloodlust, which this book does not prettify, yet there can be no denying that the Colonel passionately loved and understood every living thing that came his way: The text is rich in quotations from his marvelous nature writing.

Although TR intended to remain out of politics when he returned home in 1910, a fateful decision that spring drew him back into public life. By the end of the summer, in his famous “New Nationalism” speech, he was the guiding spirit of the Progressive movement, which inspired much of the social agenda of the future New Deal. (TR’s fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt acknowledged that debt, adding that the Colonel “was the greatest man I ever knew.”)

Then follows a detailed account of TR’s reluctant yet almost successful campaign for the White House in 1912. But unlike other biographers, Edmund Morris does not treat TR mainly as a politician. This volume gives as much consideration to TR’s literary achievements and epic expedition to Brazil in 1913–1914 as to his fatherhood of six astonishingly different children, his spiritual and aesthetic beliefs, and his eager embrace of other cultures—from Arab and Magyar to German and American Indian. It is impossible to read Colonel Roosevelt and not be awed by the man’s universality. The Colonel himself remarked, “I have enjoyed life as much as any nine men I know.”

Morris does not hesitate, however, to show how pathologically TR turned upon those who inherited the power he craved—the hapless Taft, the adroit Woodrow Wilson. When Wilson declined to bring the United States into World War I in 1915 and 1916, the Colonel blasted him with some of the worst abuse ever uttered by a former chief executive. Yet even Wilson had to admit that behind the Rooseveltian will to rule lay a winning idealism and decency. “He is just like a big boy—there is a sweetness about him that you can’t resist.” That makes the story of TR’s last year, when the “boy” in him died, all the sadder in the telling: the conclusion of a life of Aristotelian grandeur.

• 作者：砚冰 发布时间：2015-08-03 17:38:25

  看的第一本建筑类教程

• 作者：nununi 发布时间：2024-03-03 15:39:00

  综述性质的大泛论，缺乏具体的推理，以及关键事件的详细剖析，算是把历史简要复习一遍吧

• 作者：āáǎà 发布时间：2018-05-26 21:07:25

  图片和黑体字

• 作者：庄常飞 发布时间：2011-09-10 22:46:19

  Morris这部结尾和开头同样精彩，为其罗斯福三部曲画下了圆满句号。

• 作者：邵三叔 发布时间：2021-12-13 01:05:26

  经历、观察、讲述

• 作者：吃瓜群众 发布时间：2022-05-15 17:55:38

  看了三分之一 没看下去 每篇结束的拍马屁（？）好出戏

• Morris的罗斯福系列

  作者：庄常飞 发布时间：2011-09-10 23:19:09

  今天读完了Edmund Morris的最新大作《Colonel Roosevelt》，算是看完了我的第一个总统传记系列。这三部书加起来大概要有2000页左右，扣除其中500页左右的备注依然很多，远多于同样优质、但不过只有一册的Chernow等人撰写的总统传记。

  Morris的本领在于能够把任何琐碎无聊的事情都写的井井有条和风趣幽默，以至于罗斯福一生的每个细节都那么生动，而从C-SPAN中我们可以了解美国议会政治是多么枯燥。能把此类内容写的如此津津有味，证明Morris真的是讲故事高手。

  罗斯福系列也体现了Morris的另外两个优点：史料详实和文笔优美。从500页的备注和数十年的时间中，我们可以看到Morris为了写活罗斯福、同时又尊重史实究竟花了多少功夫（和他相比，我写的传记无疑是小儿科）。文笔优美这一优点我之前也提过，Morris在叙事之余不忘优雅，其精彩片段不输优质散文。

  虽然这些特点是贯穿Morris全部三本书的，但这三本书依然有高下之分，其中写的最好的要数第一本：《The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt》。这本书写的是从罗斯福出生到成为总统的前三分之二的人生。仅从Morris本人的成就来说，这本书其实是和最后一本《Colonel Roosevelt》不相上下的。但《The Rise》占了两个便宜。首先，这是Morris一鸣惊人的作品，在此之前TR没有一部传记可以和此书相比，我也认为此书是我看过的最好传记作品。

  除此之外，罗斯福本人的生活也为Morris提供了足够的题材，从富家子弟到哈佛高材生、知名作家、州议员、牛仔、纽约市长候选人、纽约警察局局长、联邦局长、海军副部长、骑兵上校、纽约州长、副总统，罗斯福的经历可谓丰富多彩，看起来也跌宕起伏，仿佛一本冒险小说。而且和小说一样，罗斯福以其超人的能力一步步克服困难、步步高升，让人看起来也很为兴奋。

  在《The Rise》之后的《Theodore Rex》是Morris在20年之后的第二本罗斯福传记，写的是罗斯福出任总统的8年时间。可能受之前Morris备受争议的里根传记《Dutch》的影响，《Theodore Rex》的文笔有些绕口，人物描写亦没有第一部生动，可读性也要差些。除了Morris本人不在状态（按照他自己的高标准）之外，题材也局限了他的发挥。虽然性格魅力十足，但“罗斯福总统”五字中较为重要的是“总统”二字，这也成为了罗斯福经历的限制。虽然他在任职期间确保美国国内和睦、军力强盛，在国外修建了巴拿马运河、调停了日俄战争，本人亦获得了诺贝尔和平奖，但罗斯福除了偶尔出外之外每天只能在白宫转悠，精力也几乎完全投入到政治当中。这使得本书的内容远不如上一本丰富，而且看起来更像美国近代史而不是Morris擅长的精彩传记。

  到了第三部、介绍罗斯福卸任到逝世的《Colonel Roosevelt》，Morris仿佛又找回了感觉，文笔再次变得干练和风趣，人物刻画、情节设置也变得和第一部一样精彩。这在很大程度上是因为罗斯福走出了白宫，经历又变得丰富起来，可以出任作家、政治家、探险者等多重身份。虽然如此，本书依然不如第一部精彩，这主要是因为《Colonel Roosevelt》写的是一个已经过了巅峰的人的经历，罗斯福已经不需要像第一部书中一样充满希望的挑战权威和自我，他已经赢得了挑战。卸任的罗斯福面临的问题是，他在度过了人生的高峰后，该如何度过之后不可避免的低谷？这是罗斯福这段经历的主题，而这也使得本书读起来略微伤感，因为第一本书罗斯福是蒸蒸日上，这本书中则是逐步衰落。

  虽然水平略有起伏、主题也各有不同，但Morris此书的综合水平可谓我所看过的质量最高的传记系列，而且是真正的寓教于乐。希望下一套我将要阅读的传记，Robert Caro的Lyndon B. Johnson系列也能和Morris的Roosevelt系列一样精彩。

• 读后感

  作者：楊葵 发布时间：2012-11-02 23:15:51

  苗炜的长篇小说《寡人有疾》里，唐朝药王孙思邈是这么说话的：“唉，多么操蛋啊，同托根于膏壤，俱禀气于太和，而修短不均，荣枯殊质，得之自然……”

  与孙思邈同时代的诗人卢照邻，原是邓王府一名清客，邓王犯上被处罚，诗人无家可归，也吃不上官饷，住到了孙思邈家后院小屋。“学到的无为恬淡就抛在了脑后，想到那些差点致他于死地的人，就觉得所谓治国方略、经世济民全是扯淡。他虽没说出什么激愤的话，可心里有了疙瘩。”

  卢照邻和孙思邈的故事，只是《寡人有疾》的第一卷，名为《诗人与医院》。后边还有两卷：《蒙古兵和瘟疫》，讲蒙古人占领开封之前，城里闹瘟疫，名医李东皋控制疫情。《父与子》讲民国初年一个留美归来的西医，用现代化的医疗手段，治死了身为老中医的父亲。

  三个故事各自独立，很像三个中篇串联在一起，但这显然不是一本中篇小说集，它是作者当长篇小说一口气写下来的。马尔克斯曾经把写小说称为“木匠活”，他说，灵感是一回事，情节是另一回事，如何将情节呈现出来，变成真正能吸引读者的文学作品，没木匠活，做不了，需要大量的钉子、镙钉和铰链。苗炜是按打一整套家具的目标，统筹安排钉子、镙钉和铰链的。

  盛唐、宋元交界的金、民国之发轫三个时间点的选择；故事地点都在都城；医生VS诗人的人物安排——唐朝段落的诗人是卢照邻，金朝段落诗人是元好问，民国段落的老中医父亲虽非诗人，但其罹患阿尔茨海默症后的率性天真，比卢照邻和元好问更像诗人；上下贯通一致的行文风格；所有这些匠心之所藏，需要读者抽丝剥茧自己去体会。

  马尔克斯在说“木匠活”这比喻同时还说：创作就是催眠。作家给读者施催眠术，让他什么也不想，只想作家正跟他讲的这个故事，要让读者长眠不醒。这一点，《寡人有疾》似乎正相反，我读的过程中，经常会联想到当下生活。

  比如，李东皋在家中，焚着香，一边如厕一边“看报纸”，看到《邸报》有一文章号召大家修城池，统甲兵，组粮草，与国同休戚，士庶行伍，全民皆兵。李见这文章写得漂亮，料定出自朝中第一健笔元好问，就用报纸擦了屁股。看了这情节，不难想起今日种种吧？如果还嫌不接地气，再看这段——守开封城的崔将军迫于形势要降蒙古人，召集翰林院诸大员开会，目的是让他们主动倡议给自己立块碑。会前翰林们的寒暄、崔将军与翰林们的关系、关于立碑的讨论过程，简直不是一个千年前的会议，分明就是今日社会之准确描摹。

  那么，苗炜是要借古喻今甚至讽今？初读时候不免会这么想，读完串联一想，也不是。我猜苗炜想要表达的主题，不在古今之别，因为“在我们这儿”，古与今其实没那么大差别。他的重点在“寡人有疾”。“寡人”，“疾”，行不行？还是那个话——作者匠心之所藏，需要读者抽丝剥茧自己去体会。还要加一句，体会到了也别太当回事，那只是一个“你以为”，就像我在这里说的也是“我以为”一样。

  苗炜在自序里说，他把这三个小说放一起自有他的道理，“可我又说不出来。它如此重大，所以不能把它太当回事。”就是这样，我也不好再说什么了。

  借用苗炜的话说，这主题如此之大，所以就可以理解，小说的情节发展为什么是平铺式的，甚至是散文化的，而非线型的跌宕起伏，因为情节冲突不重要。也就可以理解，他为什么写得那么冷酷，骨子里的冷酷，人物、事件的发展、高潮，像撞沉泰坦尼克的那座冰山，猛然就在眼前，之前没有任何铺垫与烘托。生命无常，种种无常，世间万物，说到底本来就是个刹那生灭。

  小说中，无好问送了忽必烈“儒学大宗师”匾，他还致信李东皋，讲他修宋史之艰辛：“往来四方，采摭遗逸。有所得，辄以寸纸细字亲为记录，杂录近世事至百余万言，捆束委积，塞屋数楹”。李东皋看完信，在蜡烛前摊开纸笔，写了四个字：“尔且编排”。端详良久又付之一炬。苗炜说，尔且编排的意思就是：你丫就瞎他妈写吧。