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Title:
TR's last war : Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a journey of triumph and tragedy / David Pietrusza.
Author:
Pietrusza, David, 1949- author.
Publication Information:
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, [2018]
Call Number:
E757 .P56 2018
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781493028870
Physical Description:
xvi, 383 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
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.
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