Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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Deal starts: October 28, 2023
Deal ends: October 28, 2023
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
WINNER OF THE
LOS ANGELES TIMES
BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • “[
Theodore Rex
] 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
Theodore Rex
is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. 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. But his most historic achievement remains his creation of a national conservation policy, and his monument millions of acres of protected parks and forest.
Theodore Rex
ends with TR leaving office, still only fifty years old, his future reputation secure as one of our greatest presidents.