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, 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 roughriders against the Germans, to the devastating news that
his son Quentin had been shot down and killed over France. Racked
by grief and guilt, marginalized by world events, the great glow
that had been his life was now but a dimming lantern. But TR’s
final years were productive ones as well: he churned out several
“instant” books that promoted U.S. entry into the Great War,
and he was making plans for another run at the Presidency in 1920
at the time of his death. Indeed, 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 60. ‘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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