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When trumpets call : Theodore Roosevelt after the White House / Patricia O'Toole.

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0684864770
ISBN: 0684864789
Physical Description: x, 494 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-471) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.