When trumpets call : Theodore Roosevelt after the White House /
O'Toole, Patricia.
New York : Simon & Schuster,
c2005.
Surprising, deeply moving, this portrait is framed by a deeply human question: What happens to a powerful man when he loses power? Drawing from a wealth of new and previously unused sources, O'Toole conducts the first thorough investigation of the most eventful, most revealing decade of Roosevelt's life.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-471) and index.
Labyrinth -- Embarked -- A full-blooded picnic -- One white man's burdens -- Into the thick of things -- Prairie fire -- Rift -- Duels -- Off the pedestal -- Another cup of coffee -- Saturnalia -- A barn-raising -- Spend and be spent -- Barrens -- Reckonings -- Scope -- Half-Gods -- Wild surmise -- Blackballed -- Precipice -- War in the Garden of Eden -- On a volcano -- The young Colonel and the old Colonel -- A boy inspired -- While daring greatly.
Surprising, deeply moving, this portrait is framed by a deeply human question: What happens to a powerful man when he loses power? Drawing from a wealth of new and previously unused sources, O'Toole conducts the first thorough investigation of the most eventful, most revealing decade of Roosevelt's life.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Presidents