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u/Emberwake · 10 pointsr/politics

I don't know that I agree. I recommend reading Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. It's a bit dry, but looking at the details of his life, you really come away with the impression that Teddy Roosevelt wasn't putting on an act - he really was that intense.

Incidentally, searching for a link there taught me that there is an unrelated film from 1995 by the same name starring Whoopi Goldberg.

u/gent2012 · 8 pointsr/AskHistorians

This is quite the under-taking, so I'll just list the presidents from which I am familiar with the historical literature. In order to guarantee that you get an analytically thorough understanding of each president, I'll avoid "pop" histories (thus, nothing by David McCullough) in favor of more analytically driven, yet still well written, histories. I will still incorporate some books from non-academic publishers, however. First off, the best place to start would probably be the University of Kansas's American Presidency Series (note that this is different from the American Presidents Series, which is done from NY Times books. Always be sure to check the publisher). This series is great for getting a good understanding of what historians in general have written about each respective president; however, the series only focuses on the presidency, which is more constrained than what you're looking for. I'll just go in sequential order based on when the individual was president.

u/jackisbackforgood · 7 pointsr/pics

Theodore Roosevelt is an immensely complicated and impressive man. His life and character can't be written into one book, much less quotes from an email.

In addition to his "manly" and "physical" exploits, he was a scientist, who enjoyed studying and cataloging songbirds as well as warships.

Suggested reading:
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Rex

Those are a good place to start.

u/driscoll42 · 4 pointsr/AskHistory

If you're solely interested in the Presidential History, Theodore Rex is an excellent biography on Theodore Roosevelt's Presidential years. I would strongly encourage reading The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Colonel Roosevelt, his before and after years respectively, as they are equally excellent.

u/wdr1 · 4 pointsr/funny

TR was an amazing man. Other factoids:

  • A true polymath, he was a solider, author, historian, hunter and naturalist. Even during his presidency, the Smithonian would sent samples of flora to him for identification.
  • Believed to have a photographic memory.
  • Runner-up Harvard boxing champion
  • Could read a book & dictate two letters (using two secretaries) at the same time.
  • Skinny-dipped in the Potomac... in winter.
  • In real life, Nelson Mandel didn't give Pienaar Invictus for inspiration. Rather he gave him TR's "The Man in the Arena." (A truly great speech, IMHO.)
  • First American to win a Nobel.
  • Saw to the competition of the Panama Canal.

    In other words, he was a lot like Chuck Norris. Only for reals.

    If you can set yourself for long reads, the Edmund Morris TR trilogy is well worth it:

  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
  • Theodore Rex
  • Colonel Roosevelt

    Here he is on The Daily Show (the author, not TR):

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-9-2010/edmund-morris
u/Banzeye · 4 pointsr/gameofthrones

Do it. Start now. Don't stop. Studying history gives you fantastic perspectives on the world around you and allows you to critique works of art in ways you didn't think were possible.

I'm serious. Find a topic that interests you. Go read a book about it. Don't start with microhistories or research papers, that shit even bores me from time to time^1.

Are you an American? Here, read Theodore Rex. Read about how Teddy Roosevelt makes Indiana Jones look like a dishwasher salesman.

Find a topic. Find a popular book. Enjoy history, and then get into the nitty gritty. History really can ruin your taste for fiction, because history is fucking crazy.


1.(I am a History M.A.)

u/Sketchbooks · 3 pointsr/booksuggestions

My husband absolutely LOVED the series by Edmund Morris. Chronologically it begins with The Rise of Theodore Roosevent but he recommends starting with Theodore Rex. We're expecting a child and "Theodore" immediately rose to the top of his name list.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/IAmA

There is no way this can be proven, sadly. Only 3 witnesses (and some bears). I have pictures of us moments AFTER the attack, where we all have bear mace out and cocked like guns.

Though if you trust another redditor, one of my brothers found me through this thread (knew he read reddit, didn't know he had an account).

EDIT: Duh. The source is Theodore Rex

u/Doctorpayne · 3 pointsr/HistoryPorn

Easily one of our most bad-ass presidents. For those interested in learning more this is a great read

u/Ayn-Zar · 2 pointsr/AskMen

I did it by being involved in responsibilities and duties that require you to act when no one else will. I served as a Resident Assistant during my college years, which means being the first responder to things like roommate conflicts, facility malfunctions, dorm evacuations, etc., and over 18-year-old freshmen, no less. After that, my first few post-college years were spent working in the security field, handling emergency situations, checking suspicious bags/packages, and enforcing policies against irate customers.

What I've got from those jobs is the expectation of being the only "go-to guy" when everyone else was free to ignore it or run the other way. Even better is the actual experience of it happening to you: everyone's got a plan until the actual scenario hits them in the face, and then they fall back on what they know. The more practice and "XP" you build up, the better your mindset will be in knowing when/how to act when you need to.

As far as literature goes, a good read I had years ago on the subject came from the Art of Manliness website's Sheep or Sheepdog articles. The series did a good job in discussing the inherent nature people have to avoid being the ones to act, recognizing it in yourself, and advises on ways to overcome it.

Also, if your interested in Teddy Roosevelt, I highly recommend the book Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. Morris does an incredible job narrating Roosevelt's pre-presidency years, showing how a weak, bespectacled boy became the virile figure he's famous for today.

u/Loveringave · 2 pointsr/television

I will always be an FDR fanatic but I agree that Teddy was a walking tall tale. If you like Teddy Roosevelt I strongly suggest that you read Theodore Rex. A great look into his presidential achievements. (https://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Rex-Edmund-Morris/dp/0812966007).

u/slugline · 2 pointsr/houston

And I thought for sure that the name was an homage to our 26th President of the United States.

u/coralation · 2 pointsr/politics

> Theodore Rex

Googled your recommendation: came up with THIS.

HERE'S the Amazon link for the book you mentioned. Thanks for the recommendation!

u/_Ubermensch · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

Thank you so much! I am pretty envious that you get to take an entire course on this period. I just get so excited learning about it.

There is the parish library right across the street from my house, but I never use it for some reason. I have three short books I want to read, and then I am going to read all of the books you listed. I can't wait to read about Theodore Roosevelt. Regardless of if you agree with his politics, he is just a fascinating guy.

I had never heard of settlement houses during the era, but I will definitely be researching that.

Here are the links to the Theodore Roosevelt biographical trilogy, just so everyone can find them easily:

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3

This may be a little more specific of a book question, but are there any books that explain the Progressive Era's impact on the rest of the world? Can youalso give me the definitive beginning and end of the Progressive Era (according to your course)? I seem to get a lot of differing years. There may not be an exact beginning and end but I might as well ask; it is AskHistorians anyway. Does it include or exclude WWI?

u/empleadoEstatalBot · 1 pointr/argentina

> The following February, ignoring advice from GOP leaders, Roosevelt instructed his attorney general Philander Knox to sue the monopoly on the grounds that it violated the Sherman Act. According to Larry Haeg, author of Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street’s Great Railroad War, it was the only thing TR, being TR, could do: The law was on the books, and he had to enforce it.
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> Haeg writes, “Legally, of course, it was Roosevelt’s duty, just as he thought it his duty to enforce the Sunday liquor laws when he was police commissioner. He had solemnly sworn to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.”
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> It was the first time a president had confronted the biggest corporations in America, Dalton writes, and Knox’s suit succeeded in breaking up the company.
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> That did not go over well with J.P. Morgan, who attempted to reason with TR and Knox at a meeting at the White House. Morgan suggested casually, “if we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up.” Roosevelt snorted, according to Edmund Morris’s Theodore Rex, that that could not be done.
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> The Northern Securities Company sued to overturn the decision, and the appeal went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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> The court announced its decision on March 14, 1904. In a 5-to-4 ruling, the justices sided against the Northern Securities Company. Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote in the majority opinion that “no scheme or device could more certainly come within the words of the [Sherman] Act … or could more effectively and certainly suppress free competition.”
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> Roosevelt had won. He had shown that anti-trust legislation, part of his broader attack on corruption in government, withstood judicial scrutiny. From then on, TR’s reputation as a trust-buster was cemented, and his victory at the Supreme Court helped Roosevelt’s election campaign that year.
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> In November, TR was elected to his first full term as president. Having broken up the second-biggest company in the world, he set his sights on rampant corruption in the food and drug industry—the kind of corruption that threatened people’s lives.
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> > Jenkinson: Then he becomes president and he steps back and thinks, "What are the things that need to be done here? What can a president do? What can I do?" He looks at all these problems and he realizes, well, for example, our food supply has changed because in Jefferson's era, 97 percent of the American people were family farmers and they were essentially feeding themselves. Well now, we're an increasingly urban nation. People are living in cities where they don't even have a garden plot. And so they're buying food in tins. If the food is awful, if it's not clean, if it's tainted, then people don't really have any options because they have to eat and they're not producing their own.
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> According to Deborah Blum, author of The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, food had to travel farther and for longer periods of time to reach city dwellers. Manufacturers increasingly used preservatives to ensure that food didn’t rot in transit. The problem was, most preservatives were toxic—and unregulated. Formaldehyde was added to milk to keep it fresh, while boric acid was used to preserve meat. Eating these substances in three meals a day could make people extremely ill. Not to mention that what was listed on the label might be completely different from what was in the can.
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> Adulterated foods and drugs were a huge public health problem, and there were few federal laws for protecting consumers. Journalists had tried to expose the unsafe conditions in the slaughterhouses and the need for federal inspections, but their efforts were foiled by the so-called Beef Trust. Five major meatpacking companies had joined together to fight government oversight of their Chicago-based industry.
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> > Jenkinson: He then gets a copy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
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> That’s the 1906 novel that exposed corruption and unsanitary practices in Chicago’s meatpacking plants.
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> > Jenkinson: … reads it and is appalled and he then contacts Upton Sinclair as only Roosevelt would, and says, "I'm sure you're wrong. This looks like just the worse kind of sensationalism. And by the way, I don't appreciate the socialist track in the last chapter, but I'm going to look into this and if you're right, well then, we'll do something about it."
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> Roosevelt himself had had experience with America’s lax food laws. As a Rough Rider during the Spanish-American War, he experienced putrid meat supplied by the Army. News reports claimed that meatpackers provisioned the military with tons of rotten canned beef preserved with boric acid to mask the stench. Many soldiers who ate it fell ill, and some died.
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> Roosevelt wrote to the Army’s commanding general to complain, thus stirring the scandal: “The so-called canned roast beef that was issued to us for travel rations … and which we occasionally got even at the front, was practically worthless. Unless very hungry the men would not touch it … There was also a supply of beef … supposed to be fitted by some process to withstand tropical heat. It at once became putrid and smelt so that we had to dispose of it for fear of its creating disease. I think we threw it overboard.”
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> > Jenkinson: And he looks into it and turns out it's worse than in Upton Sinclair and then Roosevelt calls in the meatpackers and said, "What are you going to do about it?" And they say, "Nothing." He says, "Well, I'll give you some time."
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> Meanwhile, Roosevelt commissioned a secret undercover investigation into meatpacking industry practices, which issued its findings in the damning Neill-Reynolds report.
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> > Jenkinson: They come back and they tell him, "If we did what you're asking, you would bankrupt the industry and blah, blah, blah." Then, Roosevelt says, "All right. You give me no choice. I'm going to publish the report." And the public is appalled and they demand change and Congress … is forced to attend to this and he gets the Meat Inspection Act of 19-6.
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> When Roosevelt delivered the Neill-Reynolds report to Congress, he wrote [PDF] in an accompanying letter, “the report shows that the stock yards and packing houses are not kept even reasonably clean, and that the method of handling and preparing food products is uncleanly and dangerous to health … the conditions shown by even this short inspection to exist in the Chicago stock yards are revolting. It is imperatively necessary in the interest of health and of decency that they should be radically changed.”
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> Congress did pass the Meat Inspection Act, and Roosevelt signed it into law on June 30, 1906. It banned the sale of adulterated or mislabeled meat products as food, and required that livestock be slaughtered in a sanitary environment. It also mandated federal inspections of food animals before and after slaughter.
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> On the same day, Roosevelt signed another bill with a similar purpose. The Pure Food and Drug Act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded food or drugs. In grocery stores and pharmacies, consumers would no longer find spoiled meat freshened with borax, children’s candies tinted with lead, whiskey consisting of prune juice and cheap alcohol, or fruit colored with coal-tar dyes. They could be sure that the drugs they purchased for common colds were actually the medicines they claimed to be.
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> Two weeks after the Pure Food and Drug Act came into force, The New York Times reported, “Already the effects of it are amazing. The masquerade of alcohol, opium, cocaine, and other injurious drugs as nerve tonics or cure for stomach and lung diseases is at an end … The trade in nostrums and patent medicines is utterly demoralized.”
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u/CeilingUnlimited · 1 pointr/latterdaysaints

I taught high school English for five years, and had my fill of the classics. I find I can't really get into that stuff anymore, although it certainly helps when I watch Jeopardy! I remain a big Hemingway and Steinbeck fan....

I've found as I grow older I am more drawn to non-fiction, with Bruce Springsteen's [Born to Run] (https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Bruce-Springsteen/dp/1501141511) and a great Teddy Roosevelt [biography] (https://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Rex-Edmund-Morris/dp/0812966007/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1497020483&sr=1-1&keywords=theodore+rex) by Edmund Morris being the last two books I've read. As far as fiction is concerned lately - dunno, but I'm always a sucker for whatever John Grisham is cooking.

I was a big Shannara series geek when I was a kid; my singular, lone experience with the fantasy genre. [The Sword of Shannara] (https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shannara-Terry-Brooks/dp/0345314255/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1497020523&sr=1-2&keywords=Sword+of+shannara) was the very first "big" book I ever read, back in 7th grade. About fifteen years ago I got to meet the author, Terry Brooks, and had the distinct pleasure to say to him "The Sword of Shannara was the first book I ever read." Wow. What a nice moment that was. (He graciously thanked me and told me that he hears that a lot.)

Specific, timely recommendation - if you haven't read recently-deceased sportswriter Frank Deford's ["Alex: The Life of a Child,"] (https://www.amazon.com/Alex-Life-Child-Frank-Deford/dp/1558535527) please consider moving it up your list. It's his account of his young daughter's well-fought, yet losing battle with Cystic Fibrosis. I was so moved by this book that I taught it for a few years to my students. Gripping and moving and very readable, it was always a highlight of the school year. DeFord's recent passing brought the book back to me, and I enjoyed reading multiple articles/columns by writers and colleagues discussing the impact that little book had on them as well. It's nice to think that DeFord is now finally reunited with his daughter.

Last thing: Need a great go-to resource for book choices? For many years I've relied on [NPR's must-read list] (http://www.npr.org/books/), and it's always been a home run for me. My wife knows that if she wants to buy me a book, all she has to do is go to that website and pick from the top. I like it better than the NYTimes list, as the summaries are often accompanied by the radio reviews played on NPR.

u/SirSoliloquy · 1 pointr/movies