Tr'S Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy

Theodore Roosevelt's Last War is a new book by David Pietrusza that chronicles his passionate crusade for military preparedness as America entered World War I, including his tongue-lashings of Woodrow Wilson, his advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied "Americanism," and his tentative rapprochement with GOP power brokers. Despite his grief and weary, TR may yet surmount everything with one monumentally odds-defying last triumph, but death stills his indomitable spirit.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 424 pages
\n Publication date: 01 January 2021
\n Publisher: Stackpole Books
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Theodore Roosevelt's Last War is a captivating new account of his passionate crusade for military preparedness as America teetered on the brink of World War I, 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. Roosevelt, a towering Greek god of war, is rebuffed in his entreaties to don the uniform and remains stateside. However, his four sons fight "over there," with heartbreaking consequences: two are wounded, and his youngest and most beloved child dies in aerial combat. Despite 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, America's entry into the Great War in 1917, Woodrow Wilson's presidency, and the last years of one of American history's greatest men, who said on his death bed at the age of sixty, "I promised myself that I would work up to the hilt until I was sixty, and I have done it. I have kept my promise..." 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.

\n Weight: 532g\n
Dimension: 143 x 221 x 26 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781493049127\n \n