![]() ![]() TR tried to wrest the 1912 Republican nomination from the unpopular Taft, who had turned his back on corporate reform. ![]() On returning to the States, he jumped back into political combat at the highest level. After the hunting ended, Roosevelt gave headline-grabbing speeches in Egypt and Germany and conducted a bit of diplomacy with various emperors and kings. ![]() He and a teenaged son killed hundreds of large animals and sent some of their carcasses back to the Smithsonian, where, suitably stuffed, they continue to return tourists’ gaze. Three weeks after attending the inauguration of William Howard Taft, his anointed successor, TR embarked on a year-long expedition in Africa. He died in 1919, just 10 years after leaving office, but he accomplished enough in that decade to justify the thickness of this final volume, the last in Edmund Morris’s trilogy about the man for whom “a strenuous life” defined both his creed and his schedule. Theodore Roosevelt seemed bent on becoming the great exception to the rule. ![]()
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