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　　Theodore Rexis 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.

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　　Edmund Morris was born and educated in Kenya and went to

college in South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in

London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. His

biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer

Prize and American Book Award in 1980. After spending several years

as President Reagan's authorized biographer, he published the

national bestseller Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in

1999. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such

publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and

Harper's Magazine. Edmund Morris lives in New York and

Washington with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes

Morris.

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To him, conservation-a term just becoming politically fashionable-meant ' not only the preservation of natural resources, but the prevention of the monopoly of natural resources, so they should inhere in the people as a whole.'

In a fundamental disagreement with Social Darwinist thinkers, Roosevelt condemned 'that baleful law of natural selection which tells against the survival of some of the most desirable classes.' His own field studies, both scientific and political, has shown him how populous species, whose competition was ferocious, advanced more slowly than those whose selection was determined by reasonable numbers and controlled by certain laws of behaviour As with guinea pigs, so with Slavs; as with lions, so with Anglo-Saxons.

For those blacks who did not, Roosevelt had little political sympathy. The Georgian blood of his unreconstructed mother persuaded him that the Fifteenth Amendment had been 'a mistake', and that, in nine cases out of ten, disfranchisement was justified. Blacks were better suited for service than suffrage; on the whole, they were' altogether inferior to the whites'.

Yet Roosevelt believed [as most Americans did not] that this inferiority was temporary. The arguments of Charles Darwin, Jean Lamarck, and Gustave Le Bon convinced him that Washington's race was merely adolescent, as his own had been in the seventeenth century. Negro advancement must' necessarily be painful'-witness the scars on Washington's face, his air of swarthy suffering- but equality would come, as black Americans, generati...

In his world there was neither absolute good nor absolute evil-only shifting standards of positive and negative behaviour, determined by the majority and subject to constant change. Morality was not defined by God; it was the code a given generation of men wanted to live by. Truth was ' what I can't believing'. Yesterday's absolutes must give way to 'the felt necessities the time.'

Human law, he went on, encouraged moneymaking, but natural law prevented equal gain.--P138

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　　In Edmund Morris, a great president has found a great

biographer. . . . Every bit as much a masterpiece of biographical

writing as The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, which won the Pulitzer

Prize.　　 　　The Washington Post

　　As a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever

to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American

presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams　　s

volumes on Jefferson and Madison.　　 　　Times Literary Supplement

　　Take a deep breath and dive into Theodore Rex, Edmund

Morris　　s sequel to his 1979 masterpiece, The Rise of Theodore

Roosevelt. . . . He writes with a breezy verve that makes the pages

fly.　　 　　The New York Times Book Review

　　A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius

maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and

American global ascension.　　 　　San Francisco Chronicle

　　Roosevelt is a biographer　　s dream, an epic character not out

of place in an adventure novel." 　　The Christian Science Monitor --

Review

书籍介绍

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.