![]() ![]() ![]() Controversially, the “advent of Roosevelt,” as Henry Adams would phrase it, would energetically propel the United States onto the world stage as an emerging superpower. In the meantime, for TR, the youngest and also the first modern president, the years of his political preparation abruptly concluded. In 1912, after having left the presidency three and a half years earlier, ironically, a former NY saloonkeeper, John Schrank, attempted to assassinate TR. Like Richard II’s metaphorical well buckets, Rauchway’s out-of-print treatise ( Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America) scrupulously examines the sociocultural theatricalities incident to McKinley’s fall and TR’s ascendancy. However, as many previously referenced sources-and those to follow-attest, the dynamic TR was not temperamentally attuned to languish in any position: six months and ten days into his term, McKinley assassin Leon Czolgosz’s bullet would propel “ Theodore Rex,” as Morris’s unequaled study designates him, into the presidency. ![]()
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