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This new account revisits a little-known 1906 incident in Teddy Roosevelt’s administration and finds an epic “lost” story of intrigue, combat, politics and redemption. On November 5, 1906, Roosevelt dismissed 167 members of the 25th Infantry in what historian Lewis Gould calls “one of the most glaring miscarriages of justice in American history.” Sixty years later, a journeyman writer named John D. Weaver, the son of a clerk at the 1906 hearings, embarked on a campaign to exonerate the soldiers. His book produced a small measure of justice: in February of 1973, the U.S. Army issued an apology to the men of the 25th Infantry and awarded the sole surviving battalion member (Dorsie Willis) back pay. This is the first chronicle of the entire Brownsville story, treating Weaver and the troops’ exoneration as an equal part of the narrative. Author Tom Durwood scratches the surface of “Teddy’s tantrum” and finds a confluence of rich characters and enduring themes. It is a story of military heroism and redemption, loyalty and betrayal, presidential influence and the power of narrative. Teddy’s Tantrum seeks to set the neglected episode in its historical context. Revisiting the roots and consequences of the tantrum provides a fresh look at Teddy Roosevelt. His behavior in the tantrum can now be tied to other incidents in his personal life and administration. Original scholarship provides the first historical account of John D. Weaver’s two-decade campaign for exoneration.