Theodore Rex

Edmund Morris

• 04 maart 2002
• 9780002177085

Samenvatting:

In this second volume of his biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris covers the period of Roosevelt's life between 1901 and 1909.;A naturalist, adventurer, soldier and politician, Theodore Roosevelt became President of the USA in 1901, when he was not quite 43 - the youngest president in the nation's history. He built himself from a frail, asthmatic boy to become one of the most charismatic presidents in history.;Responsible for radical reform, and for ensuring the construction of the Panama Canal, Roosevelt steered the US more actively into world politics and crusaded tirelessly for conservation - adding enormously to the national forests in the West.