But his most historic achievement remains his creation of a national conservation policy, and his monument millions of acres of protected parks and forest. He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Theodore Rex is the story-never fully told before-of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY “ is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams’s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.”- Times Literary Supplement By the final chapter, as the great "Teddy" prepares to quit the White House, it will be a hard-hearted listener who does not share the sentiment of Henry Adams: "The old house will seem dull and sad when my Theodore has gone.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension.”- San Francisco Chronicle It is written throughout in real time, reflecting the world as TR saw it. Theodore Rex 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. Surprisingly, this victory transforms him from a patrician conservative to a progressive, responsible between 19 for a raft of enlightened legislation. 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.
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 begins by following new president Theodore Roosevelt as he takes his emergency oath of office in Buffalo, upon the assassination of President McKinley one hundred years ago.
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