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TR's Last War

by David Pietrusza

Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919World war, 1914-1918, united statesUnited states, politics and government, 1913-1921United states, historyLast yearsWorld War, 1914-1918Politics and governmentHistory

"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"--

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