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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

How did Theodore Roosevelt, helped by crusading journalists, push a reluctant Congress toward reform, and why did his friendship with Taft fall apart?

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Author
Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Why read it

  • You will see how a leader can move a resistant legislature, and how journalists helped build the pressure
  • You will understand how reform arrived at a time of wide gaps between rich and poor, and who pushed for it
  • You will think about how friendship, rivalry and ambition shape the choices of people in power

Who it is for

  • A leader who needs to win over people who resist change
  • A reader of political biography
  • A journalist or writer curious about the power of the press

Contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CHAPTER ONE
  3. The Hunter Returns
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. Will and Teedie
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. The Judge and the Politician
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. Nellie Herron Taft
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. Edith Carow Roosevelt
  12. CHAPTER SIX
  13. The Insider and the Outsider
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN
  15. The Invention of McClure’s
  16. CHAPTER EIGHT
  17. “Like a Boy on Roller Skates”
  18. CHAPTER NINE
  19. Governor and Governor General
  20. CHAPTER TEN
  21. “That Damned Cowboy Is President”
  22. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  23. “The Most Famous Woman in America”
  24. CHAPTER TWELVE
  25. “A Mission to Perform”
  26. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  27. Toppling Old Bosses
  28. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  29. “Thank Heaven You Are to Be with Me!”
  30. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  31. “A Smile That Won’t Come Off”
  32. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  33. “Sitting on the Lid”
  34. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  35. The American People Reach a Verdict
  36. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  37. “Cast into Outer Darkness”
  38. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  39. “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!”
  40. CHAPTER TWENTY
  41. Taft Boom, Wall Street Bust
  42. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  43. Kingmaker and King
  44. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  45. “A Great Stricken Animal”
  46. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  47. A Self-Inflicted Wound
  48. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  49. St. George and the Dragon
  50. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  51. “The Parting of the Ways”
  52. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  53. “Like a War Horse”
  54. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  55. “My Hat Is in the Ring”
  56. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  57. “Bosom Friends, Bitter Enemies”
  58. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  59. Armageddon
  60. EPILOGUE

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