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Morris noted similarities between the current political situation and the atmosphere surrounding Roosevelt??€™s ascension to the presidency following the assassination of William McKinley. He said that Roosevelt, Class of 1880, had to reassure American institutions they were indestructible following the assassination...
Morris drew attention to Roosevelt??€™s theatrical nature, his political arrogance, and his role in the national environmental conservation movement...
When the forum opened for questins from the audience, participants asked about Roosevelt??€™s ego and political acumen and how he would function in today’s media-driven world...
...point, as Morris was addressing his writing method, his wife Sylvia spoke about how a photo of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral had inspired her own biography of Roosevelt??€™s second wife...
Theodore Rex could be criticized as a presidential hagiography. It is a portrait of a man of few obvious personal faults, and his political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt??€™s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt??€™s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt?...