Theodore Rex /
Edmund Morris.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Random House, c2001.
- x, 772 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Continues: The rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Continued by: Colonel Roosevelt.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [563]-571) and index.
Prologue : 14-16 September 1901 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 Interlude 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 Epilogue : 4 March 1909
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.