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The bully pulpit Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the golden age of journalism

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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the 'muckraking' press Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt le...

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Main Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Other Authors: Herrmann, Edward, 1943-2014
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2013]
Edition:Unabridged.
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:Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the 'muckraking' press Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money men and big business. Goodwin's narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. The correspondence of more than four hundred letters between Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early thirties and ends only months before Roosevelt's death. Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers wrote hundreds of letters to one another, kept journals, and wrote their memoirs. The letters of Captain Archie Butt, who served as a personal aide to both Roosevelt and Taft, provide an intimate view of both men.
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Physical Description:30 audio discs (37 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:1442353155 (unabridged)
9781442353152 (unabridged)
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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