The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism

One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, and more. â€œA tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigueâ€ (Associated Press).

Doris Kearns Goodwinâ€™s The Bully Pulpit is 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 Howard Taftâ€”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 countryâ€™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 magazineâ€”Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen Whiteâ€”teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.S. McClure.

Goodwinâ€™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 Rooseveltâ€™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.

The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwinâ€™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 historyâ€”an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781416547877
ReleaseDate 2014-09-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416547877

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781416547877
ReleaseDate	2014-09-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416547877

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism

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