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Theodore Rex

Edmund Morris

How did Theodore Roosevelt, made president by an assassination, grow into a leader remembered as the most powerfully positive since Lincoln?

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Author
Edmund Morris

Why read it

  • You will see how a president can protect land and shape policy by executive order and persuasion, not only by statute
  • You will judge how bold moves like recognising Panama can win lasting results while drawing fierce moral outrage at home
  • You will notice how constant travel and a larger than life public image became a source of political strength

Who it is for

  • A reader of American politics curious how the modern presidency began
  • A new leader trying to turn an accidental promotion into real authority
  • A voter weighing what strong executive leadership can achieve and cost

Contents

  1. PUBLISHER’S NOTE
  2. PROLOGUE: 14–16 September 1901
  3. Saturday
  4. Sunday
  5. Monday
  6. The First Administration, 1901–1904
  7. CHAPTER 1 The Shadow of the Crown
  8. CHAPTER 2 The Most Damnable Outrage
  9. CHAPTER 3 One Vast, Smoothly Running Machine
  10. CHAPTER 4 A Message from the President
  11. CHAPTER 5 Turn of a Rising Tide
  12. CHAPTER 6 Two Pilots Aboard, and Rocks Ahead
  13. CHAPTER 7 Genius, Force, Originality
  14. CHAPTER 8 The Good Old Summertime
  15. CHAPTER 9 No Power or Duty
  16. CHAPTER 10 The Catastrophe Now Impending
  17. CHAPTER 11 A Very Big and Entirely New Thing
  18. CHAPTER 12 Not a Cloud on the Horizon
  19. CHAPTER 13 The Big Stick
  20. CHAPTER 14 A Condition, Not a Theory
  21. CHAPTER 15 The Black Crystal
  22. CHAPTER 16 White Man Black and Black Man White
  23. CHAPTER 17 No Color of Right
  24. CHAPTER 18 The Most Just and Proper Revolution
  25. CHAPTER 19 The Imagination of the Wicked
  26. CHAPTER 20 Intrigue and Striving and Change
  27. CHAPTER 21 The Wire That Ran Around the World
  28. CHAPTER 22 The Most Absurd Political Campaign of Our Time
  29. Interlude
  30. CHAPTER 23 Many Budding Things
  31. CHAPTER 24 The Best Herder of Emperors Since Napoleon
  32. CHAPTER 25 Mere Force of Events
  33. CHAPTER 26 The Treason of the Senate
  34. CHAPTER 27 Blood Through Marble
  35. CHAPTER 28 The Clouds That Are Gathering
  36. CHAPTER 29 Such a Fleet and Such a Day
  37. CHAPTER 30 Moral Overstrain
  38. CHAPTER 31 The Residuary Legatee
  39. CHAPTER 32 One Long Lovely Crackling Row
  40. EPILOGUE 4 March 1909
  41. ARCHIVES
  42. THE MODERN LIBRARY EDITORIAL BOARD

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