The Last Charge of the Rough Rider

William Hazelgrove explores Teddy Roosevelt's final years, as he wanted to charge the Germans with his Rough Riders in World War I. In the last two years of his life from April 1917 to January 6, 1919, he went from the great disappointment of being denied his own regiment in World War I, leading a suicide mission of Rough Riders against the Germans, to the devastating news that his son Quentin had been shot down and killed over France. Suffering from poor health, grief and guilt and marginalized by world events, the great glow that had been his life was now but a dimming lantern. But TR’s final years were productive ones as well: he churned out several books that promoted U.S. entry into the Great War, and he was making plans for another run at the Presidency in 1920 at the time of his death.