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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Audio CD) (Abridged)
The Bully Pulpit Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism - Audio CD - Abridged Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edward Herrmann (Narrator) The gap between rich and poor has never been wider...legislative stalemate paralyzes he country...corporations resist federal regulations...bombs explode in crowded streets...small wars proliferate far from our shores...a dizzying array of inventions speed the pace of daily life. — These unnervingly familiar headlines serve as the backdrop for Do... more »ris Kearns Goodwin's highly anticipated The Bully Pulpit--a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that 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 Howward 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 divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected and changing the country's history.
The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine--Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White--teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.S. McClure.
The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwin's brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II, exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history--an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought he county closer to its founding ideals.