The last two years of The Old Lion's life

Of the many books on TR, there are none that focus on April 1917 to January 6, 1919. Racked by illness and injury, he went from the disappointment of being denied his own regiment in WW I, leading a suicide mission of Rough Riders against the Germans, to the devastating news that his son Quentin had been killed in France. But TR’s final years were productive ones as well: 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. It was Roosevelt’s quest for the “vigorous life” that, ironically, may have led to his early demise at the age of sixty.

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