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Theodore Rex (book)

Theodore Rex (2001) is a biography of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt written by author Edmund Morris. It is the second volume of a trilogy, preceded by the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) and succeeded by Colonel Roosevelt which was published on November 23, 2010.


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Edmund Morris
John Singer Sargent
English
Theodore Roosevelt
Biography
Random House
November 20, 2001
United States
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt

Theodore Rex (2001) is a biography of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt written by author Edmund Morris. It is the second volume of a trilogy, preceded by the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) and succeeded by Colonel Roosevelt which was published on November 23, 2010.

Theodore Rex covers the years of the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, from 1901 to 1909, covering events such as the construction of the Panama Canal, as well as the Roosevelt Administration's political, diplomatic and military exploits during the aforementioned period.

In City Journal, critic Ryan L. Cole praised the book along with the rest of the trilogy. He said that Theodore Rex showed the apotheosis of Roosevelt's life in a way that is "epic in scope and vast in detail". The work has also been criticized by others as having “generated no lasting ideas, no new perspectives”.

The book won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography.

  • C-SPAN Q&A Interview with Morris on his Roosevelt trilogy, November 21, 2010
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