Never Call Retreat Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War [Hardcover]

The first modern account of Theodore Roosevelt and the First World War, this is a tale of war and politics as well as the private story of true love and family devotion: a story as multi-faceted as TR's own personality.Prologue: Peace Envoy, Spring 1910 1. A Great Tragedy Impends, June-August 1914 2. A Great Black Tornado, August-November 1914 3. To Serve Righteousness, November 1914-April 1915 4. A Course of National Infamy, May-August 1915 5. First American Citizen, September 1915-March 1916 6. Not in Heroic Mood, March-June 1916 7. A Shadow Dance of Words, July-November 1916 8. The Curse of Meroz, December 1916-April 1917 9. A Slacker in Spite of Himself, April-July 1917 10. Children of the Crucible, August-December 1917 11. The People's War, January-March 1918 12. Crowded Hours of Glorious Life, March-July 1918 13. A Noble Life Gloriously Ended, July-August 1918 14. Peace with Victory, August-November 1918 Epilogue: November 1918-January 1919

The book is a fine study of the foreign policy life of Roosevelt during this period & . It is, therefore, a good book, a good historical narrative of people, ideas, and events. (Greg Kennedy, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Vol. 27 (1), 2016)

In Never Call Retreat, historian and professor J. Lee Thompson has produced an engaging, well-researched, and thoroughly documented narrative history of Roosevelts Great War years that provides greater detail than any previous historical account. & this is a fascinating work that displays all the intellectual vitality for which Roosevelt was known throughout his life. We can thank the author for reminding us just how energetic the Old Lion remained throughout the years of the Worlds greatest war to date. (Mark E. Grotelueschen, Presidential Studies Quarterly, December, 2015)

'In an aggregate of scholarly rankings from 1948 to 2011 of the American presidents, Theodore Roosevelt scores an impressive number 5 position, putting him among those l3@