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TR's last war : Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a journey of triumph and tragedy

Title
TR's last war : Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a journey of triumph and tragedy / David Pietrusza.
Author
Pietrusza, David, 1949-
Publication
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, [2018]

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Description
xvi, 383 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm
Summary
"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"--
Alternative Title
Theodore Roosevelt's last war
Subject
  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 > Last years
  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
  • World War (1914-1918)
  • 1913-1921
  • World War, 1914-1918 > United States > History
  • Last years of a person's life
  • Politics and government
  • HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
  • United States > Politics and government > 1913-1921
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cast of characters -- We must not weep -- Murder on the high seas -- A noise like 10,000 babies -- A true logothete, a real sophist -- Pretty boys who know all the latest tango steps -- The most educational drama I have ever witnessed -- A hyphenated American is not an American -- The country is not in a heroic mood -- Rules is rules here -- When a weasel sucks eggs -- Colossal figure of American manhood -- The cowardly stab -- Black blood crusted round their mouths -- I'm only asking to be allowed to die -- I wish I could get my hands on him! -- Everybody works, but father -- I would not have it otherwise -- To go out into the blackness.
Call Number
JFE 19-1316
ISBN
  • 9781493028870
  • 1493028871
  • 9781493028887 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2018001712
  • 40028385064
  • 99977688715
OCLC
1019951653
Author
Pietrusza, David, 1949- author.
Title
TR's last war : Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a journey of triumph and tragedy / David Pietrusza.
Publisher
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1913-1921
Other Form:
Online version: Pietrusza, David, 1949- author. TR's last war Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, [2018] 9781493028887 (DLC) 2018028351
Other Standard Identifier
40028385064
99977688715
Research Call Number
JFE 19-1316
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