Cover of TR's Last War

Book 2018

TR's Last War

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Publisher
Lyons Press
Published
2018
  • United states, history
  • Last years
  • Politics and government
  • History
  • Last years of a person's life

"A riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt'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 "Americanism," a death-defying compulsion for personal front-line combat, a tentative rapprochement with GOP power brokers--and perhaps even another presidential campaign"--