![]() Theodore Rex ends with TR leaving office, still only fifty years old, his future reputation secure as one of our greatest presidents. But his most historic achievement remains his creation of a national conservation policy, and his monument millions of acres of protected parks and forest. The skeleton is made up of nearly 300 bones dug up from three sites in the United States. He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. A Swiss auction house that sold a composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over 5 million this week says the new owner, a Belgian art foundation, will exhibit the fearsome dinosaur at a new cultural center in Antwerp. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. ![]() Theodore Rex is the story-never fully told before-of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. “ is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams’s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.”- Times Literary Supplement With Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau, Bud Cort. ![]() WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
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