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.
Prologue: 14–16 September 1901
Chapter 1: The Shadow of the Crown
Chapter 2: The Most Damnable Outrage
Chapter 3: One Vast, Smoothly Running Machine
Chapter 4: A Message from the President
Chapter 5: Turn of a Rising Tide
Chapter 6: Two Pilots Aboard, and Rocks Ahead
Chapter 7: Genius, Force, Originality
Chapter 8: The Good Old Summertime
Chapter 10: The Catastrophe Now Impending
Chapter 11: A Very Big and Entirely New Thing
Chapter 12: Not a Cloud on the Horizon
Chapter 14: A Condition, Not a Theory
Chapter 16: White Man Black and Black Man White
Chapter 18: The Most Just and Proper Revolution
Chapter 19: The Imagination of the Wicked
Chapter 20: Intrigue and Striving and Change
Chapter 21: The Wire That Ran Around the World
Chapter 22: The Most Absurd Political Campaign of Our Time
Chapter 23: Many Budding Things
Chapter 24: The Best Herder of Emperors Since Napoleon
Chapter 25: Mere Force of Events
Chapter 26: The Treason of the Senate
Chapter 27: Blood Through Marble
Chapter 28: The Clouds That Are Gathering
Chapter 29: Such a Fleet and Such a Day
Chapter 31: The Residuary Legatee
Chapter 32: One Long Lovely Crackling Row