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A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidenti...

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Main Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919.
Taft, William H. > (William Howard), > 1857-1930.
United States > Politics and government > 1901-1909.
United States > Politics and government > 1909-1913.
Progressivism (United States politics) > History > 20th century.
Press and politics > United States > History > 20th century.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > History > 20th century.
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Summary:A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history.
Physical Description:xiv, 910 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [753]-867) and index.
ISBN:9781416547860 (hardback) :
141654786X (hardback)
Author Notes:Doris Kearns Goodwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 4, 1943. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Colby College in 1964 and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1968. She taught at Harvard University and worked as an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson during his last year in the White House.

She has written numerous books including The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Wait Till Next Year, and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, and Leadership: In Turbulent Times. She has received numerous awards including Pulitzer Prize in history, the Harold Washington Literary Award, the Ambassador Book Award for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, and the Lincoln Prize and the Book Prize for American History for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

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