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Roosevelt is a towering Greek god of war. But Greek gods begat Greek tragedies. His own entreaties to don the uniform are rebuffed, and he remains stateside. But his four sons fight over there with heartbreaking consequences: two are wounded; his youngest and most loved child dies in aerial combat. Yet, though 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, Americas entry into the Great War in 1917, Woodrow Wilsons presidency, and the last years of one of American historys 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.
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TRs Last War
Also by David Pietrusza
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TRs Last War
Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
David Pietrusza
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Copyright 2018 by David Pietrusza
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Cast of Characters
James Edward Amos (18791954): TRs black valet and bodyguard.
Robert Bacon (18601919): TRs Harvard classmate and friend. Briefly his secretary of state. President of the pro-Preparedness National Security League. 1916 U.S. Senate candidate.
Newton Diehl Baker Jr. (18711937): Diminutive former progressive Democratic mayor of Cleveland. Woodrow Wilsons surprise choice as secretary of the army. Avowed pacifist.
Alexander W. Bannwart (18811959): Swiss-born, Boston-based pacifist. Henry Cabot Lodges unlikely sparring partner.
William F. Billy Barnes Jr. (18661930): Albany-based Republican boss of New York State. No fan of TR or Charles Evans Hughes. Sued TR for libel in 1915.
Commodore James Stuart Blackton (18751941): English-born Vitagraph film executive. TRs Oyster Bay neighbor. Producer of 1915s pro-Preparedness epic The Battle Cry of Peace .
Charles Joseph Bonaparte (18511921): TRs secretary of the navy and later his attorney general. Active Progressive.
Senator William Edgar Borah (18651940): Idaho Republican US senator. A progressive but not a third-party Progressive.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (18671941): Prominent American sculptor. Progressive Party activist.
William Jennings The Great Commoner Bryan (18601925): Legendary voice of agrarian-based populism. Thrice-defeated Democratic presidential nominee. In 1915, the pacifist Bryan resigned as Wilsons secretary of state.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Nicholas Miraculous Butler (18621947): Columbia University president. A key player at 1916s GOP convention.
Joseph Hodges Joe Choate (18321917): Prominent Republican attorney. TRs first political mentor and his first ambassador to Britain.
Russell Jordan Coles (18651928): Noted marine hunter and naturalist. TRs host for his successful 1917 devilfish expedition.
Anna Roosevelt Bye Cowles (18551931): TRs older sister and trusted confidant.
Senator Albert Baird Cummins (18501926): Progressive Iowa U.S. senator. Dark horse candidate for 1916s GOP nomination.
Josephus Daniels (18621948): North Carolina populist Democrat newspaper publisher. Wilsons secretary of the navy. FDRs boss.
Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby (18911977): TRs younger daughter. A nurse in France alongside her husband, Dr. Richard Derby.
Dr. Richard Dick Derby (18811963): Manhattan surgeon. TRs son-in-law. Winner of the Croix de Guerre with the American Medical Corps.
Charles Warren Fairbanks (18521918): TRs conservative former vice president. A dark horse for president in 1916 but was nominated again for vice president.
Senator Albert Bacon Fall (18611944): Senator from New Mexico. He nominated TR at 1916s GOP convention.
Charles Marron Fickert (18731937) : San Francisco district attorney. TR forcefully opposed his recall.
Henry Ford (18631947): Creator of the Model T and the five-dollar workday. Much-ridiculed peace activist. 1918 Senate candidate.
Representative Augustus Peabody Gussie Gardner (18651918): North Shore Massachusetts GOP congressman. Henry Cabot Lodges son-in-law. Pro-Preparedness.
James Rudolph Garfield (18651950): Son of President James A. Garfield. TRs secretary of the interior. Active Progressive.
Hannibal Hamlin Hamlin Garland (18601940): Popular novelist. TRs friend.
Lindley Miller Garrison (18641932): Wilsons first secretary of war. Resigned over Wilsons failure to support a four-hundred-thousand-man continental army.
Samuel Gompers (18501924): British-born leader of the American Federation of Labor. Sparred with TR over 1917s bloody East St. Louis race riots.
John Campbell Jack Greenway (18721926): Rough Rider. Arizona mining executive. Prominent in 1917s Bisbee Industrial Workers of the World deportations.
Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding (18651923): Small-town Ohio newspaper editor, Republican politician, and philanderer. Republican National Convention chairman and keynoter in 1916.
William Harrison Will Hays Sr. (18791954): Republican National Committee chairman.
William Randolph Hearst (18631951): Controversial American press baron. Antiwar and anti-Wilson. A Democrat.
Colonel Edward Mandell House (18581938): Texas-born Democratic political operative. Wilsons powerful and cunning minence grise.
Charles Evans Hughes (18621948): Progressive, reform governor of New York. Associate Supreme Court justice. Privately derided by TR as a bearded icicle, the famously aloof Hughes reluctantly departed the high court to head 1916s Republican ticket.
Harold LeClair Ickes (18741952): Chicago attorney. Progressive Party activist.
Hiram Warren Johnson (18661945): TRs 1912 Progressive Party running mate. California governor. Ran for U.S. senator in 1916.
John T. King (18751926): Irish-Catholic GOP boss of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Backed TR for 1920.
Philander Chase Knox (18531921): TRs first attorney general. William Howard Tafts secretary of state. U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
Senator Robert Marion Fighting Bob La Follette Sr. (18551925): Veteran Wisconsin progressive who danced to his ownand not TRstune. Antiwar.
Robert Duke Lansing (18641928): Wilsons pro-British second secretary of state.
John J. Jack Leary Jr. (18741944): New York Tribune correspondent. Member of Roosevelts newspaper cabinet.
Arthur Hamilton Lee, First Viscount Lee of Fareham (18681947): Aristocratic British Conservative Party politician. Honorary Rough Rider.
Walter Lippmann (18891974): New Republic editor. For TR in 1912, Wilson in 1916.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (18501924): Patrician Republican Massachusetts U.S. senator. TRs longtime friend and staunch ally on Preparedness. TR vainly pitched Lodge to Progressives as their 1916 nominee.
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