Author: Harold HowlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
Author: Harold HowlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
Author: Harold Jacobs HowlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
Author: Harold HowlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement
Author: George Edwin MowryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Progressivism (United States politics)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Theodore Roosevelt and the progressive movement
Author: George E. MowryUnreasonable Men
Author: Michael WolraichPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1137438088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street's corrupting influence from Washington. Their opponents called them "radicals," and "fanatics." They called themselves Progressives. President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved of La Follette's confrontational methods. Fearful of splitting the party, he compromised with the conservative House Speaker, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, to pass modest reforms. But as La Follette's crusade gathered momentum, the country polarized, and the middle ground melted away. Three years after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt embraced La Follette's militant tactics and went to war against the Republican establishment, bringing him face to face with his handpicked successor, William Taft. Their epic battle shattered the Republican Party and permanently realigned the electorate, dividing the country into two camps: Progressive and Conservative. Unreasonable Men takes us into the heart of the epic power struggle that created the progressive movement and defined modern American politics. Recounting the fateful clash between the pragmatic Roosevelt and the radical La Follette, Wolraich's riveting narrative reveals how a few Republican insurgents broke the conservative chokehold on Congress and initiated the greatest period of political change in America's history.
Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy
Author: Sidney M. MilkisPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618171
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party made the 1912 campaign a passionate contest for the soul of the American people. Promoting an ambitious program of economic, social, and political reform-"New Nationalism"-that posed profound challenges to constitutional government, TR and his Progressive supporters provoked an extraordinary debate about the future of the country. Sidney Milkis revisits this emotionally charged contest to show how a party seemingly consumed by its leader's ambition dominated the election and left an enduring legacy that set in motion the rise of mass democracy and the expansion of national administrative power. Milkis depicts the Progressive Party as a collective enterprise of activists, spearheaded by TR, who pursued a program of reform dedicated to direct democracy and social justice and a balance between rights and civic duty. These reformers hoped to create a new concept of citizenship that would fulfill the lofty aspirations of "we the people" in a quest for a "more perfect union"-a quest hampered by fierce infighting over civil rights and antitrust policy. Milkis shows that the Progressive campaign aroused not just an important debate over reforms but also a battle for the very meaning of Progressivism. He describes how Roosevelt gave focus to the party with his dedication to "pure democracy"-even shoehorning judicial recall into his professed "true conservative" stance. Although this pledge to make the American people "masters of their Constitution" provoked considerable controversy, Milkis contends that the Progressives were not all that far removed from the more nationally minded of the Founders. As Milkis reveals, the party's faith in a more plebiscitary form of democracy would ultimately rob it of the very organization it needed in order to survive after Roosevelt. Yet the Progressive Party's program of social reform and "direct democracy" has reverberated through American politics-especially in 2008, with Barack Obama appealing to similar instincts. By probing the deep historical roots of contemporary developments in American politics, his book shows that Progressivism continues to shape American politics a century later.
The New Nationalism
Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
Author: Harold HowlandTheodore Roosevelt and His Times
Author: Harold HowlandPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266170693
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.