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

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

Book 2013

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 hi...