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Bret Baier turned up on The Five this week not as a bystander but as a national storyteller, opening up about the inspiration for his new book and why Teddy Roosevelt’s life matters again to Americans hungry for strength and purpose. The segment highlighted Baier’s argument that Roosevelt’s bold, unapologetic leadership pulled America into its role as a global power and offers a roadmap for recovering the national spirit.
To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower is Baier’s latest entry in his presidential series, due on October 21, 2025, and built around the simple conservative truth that character, courage, and conviction change history. Baier’s official book page and publisher materials make clear he set out to show how Roosevelt’s mix of reform, strength abroad, and love of country redefined the presidency and made America safer and prouder.
Conservatives should celebrate a mainstream journalist who refuses the cowardice of our cultural moment and instead points readers toward a leader who stood for national pride, honest patriotism, and the hard work of nation-building. Roosevelt wasn’t perfect, but he had backbone — he cleaned corruption, defended the weak, and believed America should lead because its values were worth defending; that is the kind of leadership our country desperately needs again.
The left spends its time tearing down our history and flattering weakness, pretending that virtue is found in abject apology and endless accommodation to foreign tyrants and domestic fecklessness. Baier’s book arrives as a rebuke to that fashionable surrender: if we want to revive prosperity, secure our borders, and restore self-respect to our schools and institutions, we must relearn the muscle of American confidence and civic pride.
Baier isn’t just preaching from an ivory tower; he’s on the road, bringing this message to real towns and real patriots and making his book widely available for pre-order now — a timely offering as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary and faces a choice about what kind of America to be. Conservative readers looking for a corrective to a media class that cowers at every leftist demand will find a muscular, readable case for leadership and for rediscovering national ambition.
Finally, there’s a human note behind Baier’s drive: recent coverage shows he’s been through personal trials as a father, and that perspective — the kind that prioritizes family and country over performative politics — informs his work and gives it moral weight. In a moment when too many elites sneer at patriotism, Baier’s book and his willingness to say loud and proud that America is worth fighting for are a clarion call to hardworking Americans to stand up, read, and reclaim the spirit that made this country great.
