Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvi, 383 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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

1. Theodore Roosevelt's last war

Subject

1. United States
2. United States > Politics and government > 1913-1921
3. History
4. Politics and government
5. World War (1914-1918)
6. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
7. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 > Last years
8. Last years of a person's life
9. 1913-1921
10. World War, 1914-1918 > United States > History

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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

1. JFE 19-1316

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Pietrusza, David, 1949- author.

Title

1. TR's last war : Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a journey of triumph and tragedy / David Pietrusza.

Publisher

1. Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1913-1921

Other form:

1. Online version: Pietrusza, David, 1949- author. TR's last war Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, [2018] 9781493028887 (DLC) 2018028351

LCCN

1. 2018001712

Other standard identifier

1. 40028385064
2. 99977688715

ISBN

1. 9781493028870 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 1493028871 hardcover alkaline paper
3. 9781493028887 (ePub ebook)

Research call number

1. JFE 19-1316