Theodore Rex. (Books in review: TR grit). (book review)

Theodore Rex By Edmund Morris. Random House, 864 pages, $35.00

OF ALL THE PRESIDENTIAL monuments in Washington, perhaps the most fitting is also one of the least known: the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, which hides amid the woods of an 88-acre island in the Potomac. Most people get to Roosevelt Island by driving to a parking lot on the Virginia shore and then walking across a bridge. Roosevelt himself, I'm sure, would have preferred to paddle a rowboat from Georgetown across the river and hike through the pines and poplars to the shady clearing where a 17-foot-tall statue of the ...

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