Description:A PRESIDENT ON TRIAL. A REPUTATION AT STAKE.
"Remarkable and intensely dramatic." —SCOTT TUROW
"A fascinating window onto the former President." —BRIAN KILMEADE
ABC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams reveals the story of Teddy Roosevelt's last stand—an epic courtroom battle against corruption—in this thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Lincoln's Last Trial.
"No more dramatic courtroom scene has ever been enacted," reported the Syracuse Herald on May 22, 1915 as it covered "the greatest libel suit in history," a battle fought between former President Theodore Roosevelt and the leader of the Republican party.
Roosevelt , the boisterous and mostly beloved legendary American hero, had accused his former friend and ally, now turned rival, William Barnes of political...