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Bret Baier is stepping off the anchor desk and into the fight for our national memory with a new biography of Theodore Roosevelt, To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower, set to be released on October 21, 2025. This is not a sleepy book launch; it’s a clarion call from a trusted conservative journalist to remind Americans who we are and what made us great.
Baier’s reporting chops and steady credibility lend weight to a project that treats TR as more than a hashtag or a soundbite — a complicated, heroic figure who pulled a fractious nation onto the world stage. The book’s central claim is straightforward and unapologetic: Roosevelt rescued the American spirit through grit, reform, and unapologetic patriotism — lessons our country desperately needs.
On the conservative airwaves and in interviews, Baier has pushed back against the fashionable urge to flatten great men into ideological cartoons, noting that you couldn’t neatly define Teddy Roosevelt with the categories today’s cultural gatekeepers prefer. That observation is a rebuke to both the left’s tendency to cancel history and the right’s habit of cheap hagiography; Baier insists on truth over convenience.
We should be clear-eyed about what TR stood for: courage in battle, fierce independence from entrenched elites, and a muscular belief that America’s values are a force for good in the world. Those two virtues — backbone and belief — are the very things progressive elites have tried to neuter in modern governance and education, which is why Baier’s book matters so much to patriotic conservatives.
This isn’t academic navel-gazing; Baier connects Roosevelt’s instincts for strong leadership, national unity, and stewardship of our natural heritage to the everyday responsibilities of citizens and leaders today. If you care about a robust, sovereign America that defends its people and its ideals, reading history the right way — whole and unashamed — is the first step toward rescuing our spirit.
Baier isn’t just publishing a book; he’s taking it on the road, appearing at presidential libraries and forums that honor the very tradition Roosevelt helped build, so patriots across the country can hear this message in person. Don’t let the coastal elites lecture you about who counts as an American hero — show up, buy the book, and bring friends so the next generation hears a true account of national greatness.
We need more citizens and leaders willing to stand tall for this country, and Bret Baier’s move from nightly anchor to steward of our history should be welcomed by every patriot who knows that a free people without pride quickly loses both liberty and future. Read the book, learn the man, and let Roosevelt’s example steel you for the battles ahead — Baier has done our side a service by insisting that America’s story is worth saving.
