The Bully Pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (CD-Audio)

from pierthinker

A superb analysis of early 20th century American politics, highlighting the political career of Theodore Roosevelt. Goodwin uses the growth in investigative journalism in this period to contrast the, what we would call, 'modern' approach to politics and its relationship with the press used by Roo...

from maneekuhi

Who was the youngest US President? No, not JFK - rather it was Teddy Roosevelt who became President at 42 succeeding the assasinated McKinley in 1901. Roosevelt is elected in 1904 and vows on election eve not to run in 1908. Rather, William Howard Taft, another Republican, and TR's secretary of w...

from nmele

This excellent history has three threads: the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, the rise and influence of investigative, long-form journalism, and Roosevelt's pioneering use of the press to achieve political ends. Any one of these would make a good book in itself, b...

from Bodagirl

hew! That was a long one. It was excellent, though maybe a bit TR heavy. But that is how the relationship between TR and Taft was, TR sprinting ahead and dragging everyone in his wake while Taft plods along but still makes progress. Very well written and researched with a bonus focus on the progr...

from cyderry

Goodwin is superb as an historian and in this book we see Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft as individuals but also we see how working shoulder to shoulder, they created a greater good often at the cost of their own ambitions. TR's personality comes through as adventurer and master politici...