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Article: King Ted; Theodore Roosevelt.('Theodore Rex')
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2002
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The last laugh
FEW readers of Edmund Morris's "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt", will be surprised to learn that he has written a highly engaging--if somewhat flawed--second volume. "Theodore Rex", describing Roosevelt's years as president, from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to William Howard Taft's inauguration in 1909, is the more than worthy centrepiece of what will be a distinguished three-volume biography. There is a vogue in America just now for big presidential lives--which Mr Morris, with his 1999 biography of Ronald Reagan, "Dutch", has done much to create--and this work will further stir that enthusiasm.
Roosevelt was the most ...
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