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The Last Charge of the Rough Rider: Theodore Roosevelt's Final Days

The Last Charge of the Rough Rider: Theodore Roosevelt's Final Days

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Presidents & Heads of State20th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1493089692
ISBN13: 9781493089697
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: Feb 4 2025
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There have been many books on Theodore Roosevelt, but there are none that solely focus on the last years of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg from an accident, and a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt, in the last two years of his life from April 1917 to January 6, 1919, he went from the great disappointment of being denied his own regiment in World War I, leading a suicide mission of Rough Riders against the Germans, to the devastating news that his son Quentin had been shot down and killed over France. Still, his political influence was so great that his opposition to the policies of Woodrow Wilson helped the Republican Party take back the Congress in 1918. However, as William Hazelgrove points out in this book, it was Roosevelt's quest for the vigorous life that, ironically, may have led to his early demise at the age of sixty. The Old Lion is dead, TR's son Archie cabled his brother on January 6, 1919, and so, too, ended a historic era in American life and politics.

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