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TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy

An amazingly fresh approach to a much covered subjectâ€¦.

TR's Last War is a riveting new account of Theodore Rooseveltâ€™s impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson, his rousing advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied â€œAmericanism,â€ a death-defying compulsion for personal front-line combat, a tentative rapprochement with GOP power brokersâ€”and, yes, perhaps, even another presidential campaign. Roosevelt is a towering Greek god of war. But Greek gods begat Greek tragedies. His own entreaties to don the uniform are rebuffed, and he remains stateside. But his four sons fight â€œover thereâ€ with heartbreaking consequences: two are wounded; his youngest and most loved child dies in aerial combat. Yet, though grieving and weary, TR may yet surmount everything with one monumentally odds-defying last triumph. Poised at the very brink of a final return to the White House, death stills his indomitable spirit.

In his lively, witty, blow-by-blow style, David Pietrusza captures, through the lens of the Bull Moose, the 1916 presidential campaign, Americaâ€™s entry into the Great War in 1917, Woodrow Wilsonâ€™s presidency, and the last years of one of American historyâ€™s greatest men, who said on his death bed at the age of sixty, â€œI promised myself that I would work up to the hilt until I was sixty, and I have done it. I have kept my promiseâ€¦.â€ Pietrusza not only transports readers with his dramatic portraits of TR, his hated rival Wilson, and politics in wild flux but also poignantly chronicles the horrific price a family pays in war.
Country USA
Brand Lyons Press
Manufacturer Lyons Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 44 Halftones, black and white
ReleaseDate 2018-09-01
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781493028870

Country	USA
Brand	Lyons Press
Manufacturer	Lyons Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	44 Halftones, black and white
ReleaseDate	2018-09-01
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781493028870

TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy

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