Random House Nov 2001, hc $35.00

Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris

Theodore Rex is the sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It tells the story of President Roosevelt's seven and a half years in Washington - years in which Roosevelt entertains, infuriates, amuses, strong-arms, and seduces the body politic into a state of almost total subservience to his will. Theodore Rex, full of cinematic detail, moves with the exhilarating pace of a novel, yet it rides on a granite base of scholarship. TR's own voice is constantly heard, as the President was a gifted letter writer and raconteur. Roosevelt encounters harbingers of all the major issues of the new century - imperialism, industrialism, conservation, immigration, labor, race - plus the overall challenge of how to harness America's new power as the world's richest nation.

"Magnificent...a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character.... It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume." - W. A. Swanberg, The New York Times Book Review

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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.