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Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command John S. D. Eisenhower. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2014.
John S. D. Eisenhower was the son of Dwight D. Eisenhower. After retiring from the Army with the rank of Brigadier General, Eisenhower served as Ambassador to Belgium from 1969-1971. He began a distinguished career as a military historian with The Bitter Woods (1969), a highly-regarded account of the Battle of the Bulge. Many more books followed, until his death in December 2013.
Eisenhower's posthumous publication Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood is a brief narrative of a consequential friendship between two like-minded men. Late in June 1897, Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood met at a party in Washington, DC. They quickly became boon companions. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Wood was an Army surgeon acting as personal physician to President William McKinley. The two men were soon taking vigorous constitutionals through Rock Creek Park together. This shared exercise reflected their joint commitment to what Roosevelt termed "the strenuous life," a conviction that modern American men needed to maintain the martial virtues of their pioneer forebears through a regimen of...