Theodore Rex /Edmund Morris.
- first edition.
- New York, New York : Random House, (c)2001.
- x, 772 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
THE FIRST ADMINISTRATION, 1901 - 1904 -- The shadow of the crown -- The most damnable outrage -- One vast, smoothly running machine -- A message from the president -- 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 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.
Theodore Rex (the title is taken from a quip by Henry James) tells the story of the following seven and a half years-years in which TR entertains, infuriates, amuses, strong-arms, and seduces the body politic into a state of almost total subservience to his will. It is not always a pretty story: one of the revelations here is that TR was hated and feared by a substantial minority of his fellow citizens. Wall Street, the white South, Western lumber barons, even his own Republican leadership in Congress strive to harness his steadily increasing power. https://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Rex-Edmund-Morris/dp/0394555090/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3MELMTVLXA8VT&keywords=9780394555096&qid=1684153748&sprefix=9%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1