Theodore Rex /
Edmund Morris.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Random House, c2001.
- x, 772 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Continues: The rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Continued by: Colonel Roosevelt.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [563]-571) and index.
The first administration, 1901-1904. The shadow of the crown -- The most damnable outrage -- One vast, smoothly running machine -- A message from the president -- Turn of a rising tide -- Two pilots aboard, and rocks ahead -- Genius, force, originality -- The good old summertime -- No power or duty -- The catastrophe now impending -- A very big and entirely new thing -- Not a cloud on the horizon -- The big stick -- A condition, not a theory -- The black crystal -- White man black and black man white -- No color of right -- The most just and proper revolution -- The imagination of the wicked -- Intrigue and striving and change -- The wire that ran around the world -- The most absurd political campaign of our time -- The second administration, 1905-1909. Many budding things -- The best herder of emperors since Napoleon -- Mere force of events -- The treason of the senate -- Blood through marble -- The clouds that are gathering -- Such a fleet and such a day -- Moral overstrain -- The residuary legatee -- One long lovely crackling row.
Read by Harry Chase.
Describes Theodore Roosevelt's presidency as he faced the challenges of a new century in which the United States would become a world power, and discusses his accomplishments and failures, the enemies he made, and his family life.