| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House. By Patricia O'Toole. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. xiv, 494 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-86477-0.)

Theodore Roosevelt's last decade has posed a problem for his biographers. Those ten years, from the time he left the White House in 1909 until his unexpected death at the beginning of 1919, saw him at his best and at his worst. In domestic affairs, his pursuit of another presidential nomination and candidacy as a third-party nominee afforded his greatest opportunity for developing and pursuing his reform ideas. In foreign affairs, his travels abroad and his reactions to World War I offered his widest scope for expounding his ideas about international order and the proper role of the United States in the world. At the same time, his courtship of southern whites opened him to charges of racial insensitivity or worse, while his furious attacks on Woodrow Wilson exposed him to allegations of envy and malice. Withal, Roosevelt made his greatest impact on American politics during this decade, even more than he had done as president. Yet this time remains a period neglected or slighted by most of his biographers, a recent exception being Kathleen Dalton in her excellent work, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (2002).

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