Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris [481]
18.1 Sagamore Hill in winter.
19.1 Mark Hanna and members of the Republican National Committee, 11 December 1903.
20.1 Theodore and Edith Roosevelt receiving at a White House garden party.
21.1 The Republican National Convention, Chicago, June 1904.
22.1 Roosevelt being notified of his nomination, 27 July 1904.
22.2 Alice Roosevelt, 1904. Collection of Alice Sturm.
23.1 Roosevelt’s Inauguration, 4 March 1905.
23.2 TR reading with Skip in Colorado, May 1905.
24.1 Alice Roosevelt and William Howard Taft en route to Japan, 1905. Collection of Alice Sturm.
24.2 Extracts from TR’s “picture letter” to Alice, 21 July 1905. Collection of Alice Sturm.
24.3 Sergei Witte, Baron Rosen, the President, Baron Komura, and Ambassador Takahira, 5 August 1905.
25.1 Alice in the Far East, late summer 1905. Collection of Alice Sturm.
25.2 Roosevelt in his Sagamore Hill study, September 1905.
26.1 Theodore Roosevelt in mid-sentence.
27.1 The President’s favorite photograph of Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Author’s Collection.
27.2 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, ca. 1906. Collection of Alice Sturm.
27.3 Roosevelt mounting a steam shovel, Panama Canal Zone, November 1906.
28.1 Speaker Joseph Cannon, ca. 1907.
29.1 Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot on the Mississippi River, October 1907.
30.1 Roosevelt (invisible) leads a Rock Creek Park expedition. Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
30.2 Theodore Roosevelt hosts the first conservation conference, May 1908.
32.1 President-elect William Howard Taft, 1909.
32.2 The Great White Fleet returns from its round-the-world trip, 22 February 1909.
epl.1 Roosevelt and Taft arriving at the Capitol, 4 March 1909.
epl.2 The children of Taylor, Texas, bid farewell to Theodore Roosevelt, 6 Apr. 1905. Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
EDMUND MORRIS was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1940. He was schooled there, and studied music, history, and literature at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. After leaving Africa in 1964, he became an advertising copywriter in London. He immigrated to the United States in 1968 and became a full-time writer in 1972. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt began life as a screenplay. It was published in 1979 and won the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award. In 1981, Morris was appointed the official biographer of President Ronald Reagan. The resultant work, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, caused a controversy when it appeared in 1999 because of its use of a partly imaginary narrator. Theodore Rex is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the life of Theodore Roosevelt.
Edmund Morris lives in New York City with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris.
Read on for a preview from Edmund Morris’s
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
LATER THAT AFTERNOON, the Mayflower hitched itself to another train and headed for Wisconsin. Advance word came that a “GXLC” situation portended in Milwaukee, with plans for a grand parade and public dinner before Roosevelt’s speech. Dr. Terrell refused to let his patient be subjected to these strains.
Upon the train’s arrival in Milwaukee at six o’clock, members of the local Progressive committee came aboard, and were told that the Colonel was “extremely tired.” He would dine privately in his car, rest for an hour or so, and not use his voice until the time came for him to speak at the Auditorium. Even then, he would be able to make only a few opening remarks. The main text of his address would have to be read for him. O. K. Davis explained that Roosevelt had long speeches scheduled every night for the rest of the campaign.
The committee chairman complained so bitterly that Roosevelt took pity on him and said to Davis, “I want to be a good Indian, O. K.”
From that moment he was the committee’s prisoner. He was driven through a mile-long, rejoicing crowd to the Gilpatrick Hotel on Third Street. A hospitality suite awaited him upstairs. Before sitting down to dinner, he lay back in a rocking chair and napped—something Davis had never seen him do before. Shortly after