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Theodore Rex, by Edmund Morris (Random House, 772 pp., $35)
Terrorism on the scale of September 11 is new to America, or to anywhere else for that matter. But there is nothing unprecedented about political attacks on U.S. soil. On September 6, 1901-100 years, almost to the day, before the carnage at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon-the president of the United States, William McKinley, was gunned down by a Polish-American anarchist named Leon Czolgosz. Theodore Roosevelt succeeded McKinley, and devoted a good portion of his first message to Congress to denouncing foreign terrorists, in words that seem strikingly relevant to the present day.
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Source: HighBeam Research, American Lion.(Review)