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Article: When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after The White House.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2006
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When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after The White House. By Patricia O'Toole. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Pp. 494. $30.00.)
Theodore Roosevelt (TR) packed several lifetimes into his first fifty years. Ultimate politician, author of over two dozen books, intrepid explorer, battle-tested cavalryman, and even side-busting cowboy, Roosevelt began his incomparable public career as a twenty-three-year-old state legislator and ended it as our most vigorous president. He was also, according to Patricia O'Toole, our most vigorous ex-president.
O'Toole, in When Trumpets Call, paints a bittersweet portrait of TR's last ten years, sharing moments ...