The bully pulpit :
by Goodwin, Doris Kearns.frey50
Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Edition statement:Large Print edition. Published by : Gale Cengage Learning (Detroit) , 2013 Physical details: 1277 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 25 cm. ISBN:9781410463227 (large print : hardcover); 1410463222 (large print : hardcover). ISSN:978141046| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The hunter returns -- Will and Teedie -- The judge and the politician -- Nellie Herron Taft -- Edith Carrow Roosevelt -- The insider and the outsider -- The invention of McClure's -- "Like a boy on roller skates" -- Governor and Governor General -- "That damned cowboy is President" -- "The most famous woman in America" -- "A mission to perform" -- Toppling old bosses -- "Thank Heaven you are to be with me!" -- "A smile that won't come off" -- "Sitting on the lid" -- The American people reach a verdict -- "Cast into outer darkness" -- "To cut Mr. Taft in two!" -- Taft boom, Wall Street bust -- Kingmaker and king -- "A great stricken animal" -- A self-inflicted wound -- St. George and the dragon -- "The parting of the ways" -- "Like a war horse" -- "My hat is in the ring" -- "Bosom friends, bitter enemies" -- Armageddon -- Epilogue.
The first decade of the Progressive era was a tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft -- a relationship that ruptured when they engaged in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination. It is also the story of the muckracking press, which aroused the spirit of reform that helped Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources.