Sifting through the ephemera of youth for the kernel of a great man's mature persona can be exhilarating for a biographer who's not in a hurry, and as Edmund Morris demonstrated in "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt," the celebrated first volume of his trilogy about TR, he's a patient man. Apart from an interlude to write "Dutch," his controversial examination of the life of Ronald Reagan, the president who least resembled Roosevelt, and a later de... Full Story