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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Since we recently celebrated

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President's Day, here's just one book
about one president that is worth checking out.

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The title is Theodore Rex by historian
Edmund Morris. This two thousand and

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one biography of the US President Teddy
Roosevelt is a second book in a trilogy

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by Mars, this one covering the
years nineteen oh one to nineteen o nine,

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our twenty sixth president. A progressive
Republican, Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest

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to hold office in his terms in
the White House were, like the occupant

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at the time, action oriented.
Teddy Roosevelt was a champion of conservation and

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the protection of land and resources across
the country. He famously fought trusts and

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monopolies that had so often ruled the
economy, and tr was certainly forward thinking

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when it came to labor and race
relations. He was the first American to

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win the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating
piece in the Russo Japanese War. Roosevelt

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expanded the Navy's reach around the world, helping to project American dominance. One

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of our most interesting historical figures,
Theodore Rex by historian Edmund Morris, The

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Book Club WBZ, Boston's news radio