By the final chapter, as the great 'Teddy' prepares to quit the White House in 1909, it will be a hard-hearted reader who does not share the sentiment of Henry Adams: 'The old house will seem dull and sad when my Theodore has gone.' - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris’s classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It is written throughout in real time, reflecting the world as TR saw it. does not attempt to justify TR's notorious action following the Brownsville Incident of 1906 - his worst mistake as President - but neither does this resolutely honest biography indulge in the easy wisdom of hindsight. Interspersed with many stories of Rooseveltian triumphs are some bitter episodes - notably a devastating lynching - that remind us of America's deep prejudices and fears. He wins the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing about an end to the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Even more surprising, to critics who have caricatured TR as a swinger of the Big Stick, is his emergence as a diplomat. Surprisingly, this victory transforms him from a patrician conservative to a progressive, responsible between 19 for a raft of enlightened legislation, including the Pure Food and Employer Liability acts. ('Theodore is never sober,' said Adams, 'only he is drunk with himself and not with rum.') TR's speed of thought and action, and his total command of all aspects of presidential leadership, from bureaucratic subterfuge to manipulation of the press, make him all but invincible in 1904, when he wins a second term by a historic landslide. Also heard are the many witticisms, sometimes mocking, yet always affectionate, of such Roosevelt intimates as Henry Adams, John Hay, and Elihu Root. TR's own voice is constantly heard, as the President was a gifted letter writer and raconteur.

It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down from Mount Marcy, New York, to take his emergency oath of office in Buffalo, one hundred years ago.Theodore Rex, full of cinematic detail, moves with the exhilarating pace of a novel, yet it rides on a granite base of scholarship.

'The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic best-seller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, map, and photographic portrait frontispiece. Includes Prologue: 14-16 September 1901 Epilogue 4 March 1909 Acknowledgments Archives Select Bibliography Notes Illustration Credits and Index. As new condition black boards/black spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket.

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