Written by Laurence Luckinbill

"Loved it. Really admired it. Very visual. Glued to it. Loved it!"
                --CECIL SMITH,
                  DRAMA & TELEVISION CRITIC EMERITUS,
                  THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Luckinbill captures Teddy Roosevelt's history and great humanity in a thrilling, vastly entertaining drama!"
                --JOHN JAKES, AUTHOR,
                 NORTH AND SOUTH AND AMERICAN DREAMS

July, 1918: Former President Theodore Roosevelt, preparing to address an audience of ordinary Americans on issues of importance, learns by telegram that his youngest son, Quentin, a pilot in the 95th American Aero Squadron, has just been shot down by German planes, but there is hope that he is alive and has been captured. Anxiously awaiting future news, Roosevelt masters his emotions, enters the hall and begins his speech. It turns into a blistering denunciation of President Wilson's politics of appeasement, and a deeply emotional self-portrait of Teddy Roosevelt as he recalls his life up to this moment of fear and tension.

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