Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Since we recently celebrated
President's Day, here's just one book about one president that is worth checking out.
The title is Theodore Rex by historian Edmund Morris. This two thousand and
one biography of the US President Teddy Roosevelt is a second book in a trilogy
by Mars, this one covering the years nineteen oh one to nineteen o nine,
our twenty sixth president. A progressive Republican, Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest
to hold office in his terms in the White House were, like the occupant
at the time, action oriented. Teddy Roosevelt was a champion of conservation and
the protection of land and resources across the country. He famously fought trusts and
monopolies that had so often ruled the economy, and tr was certainly forward thinking
when it came to labor and race relations. He was the first American to
win the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating piece in the Russo Japanese War. Roosevelt
expanded the Navy's reach around the world, helping to project American dominance. One
of our most interesting historical figures, Theodore Rex by historian Edmund Morris, The
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