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It won a Pulitzer Prize Theodore Rex is a solid bet for another.
Morris delivered the first volume, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, in 1979. Theodore Rex is the long-awaited second volume of the TR saga. Readers will note that American interventionism abroad (today's major issue) was much debated during TR's presidency, when major interventional imperatives challenged the new superpower's tradition of relative restraint in foreign affairs. He doesn't dilute but illuminates events in presenting an account that immediately sparks interest and captures the mind. Morris is blessed with the imagination and skills to write gripping popular history. Washington, and novelist Owen Wister - appear onstage, their clear voices projecting the excitement of the day. Morgan, fellow politician William Howard Taft, civil rights leader Booker T. Hill, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, financier J. Not least, TR put national parks and conservation of natural resources on the legislative agenda.Īll TR's notable contemporaries - including historian Henry Adams, naturalists John Burroughs and John Muir, robber barons E. Despite the demands of family and social life, he read, wrote, and traveled extensively. Abroad, the American presence in Cuba and the Philippines brought criticism, the Russo-Japanese conflict threatened major power shifts in the Far East and Europe, and a politically and financially fraught decision on the Central American canal route - Panama or Nicaragua? - had to be made. At home, TR had to persuade Congress to curb competition-stifling corporate trusts, monopolistic transcontinental railroads, and unhygienic food industries that saw consumers as sheep. President McKinley's assassination brought the 43-year-old TR a challenging presidency, one to which Morris is a clearsighted guide. His exhilarating narrative will captivate readers, providing welcome confirmation that this nation can produce presidents who bring leadership to great issues, hold to their purpose, and shape the destinies of nations. "TR" typifies the "can do" American his famous maxim, of course, was "Speak softly but carry a big stick." Morris presents eyewitness history through the voices of the makers and shakers.
Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biography - and Edmund Morris has provided one.
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