1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election that Changed the Country - Brossura

Chace, James

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ISBN 10: 0743273559 ISBN 13: 9780743273558

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2005

Riassunto

Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates.

When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a radical reformer on the Bull Moose ticket. Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson, the ex-president of Princeton, astonished everyone by seizing the Democratic nomination from the bosses who had made him New Jersey's governor. Most revealing of the reformist spirit sweeping the land was the charismatic socialist Eugene Debs, who polled an unprecedented one million votes.

Wilson's “accidental” election had lasting impact on America and the world. The broken friendship between Taft and TR inflicted wounds on the Republican Party that have never healed, and the party passed into the hands of a conservative ascendancy that reached its fullness under Reagan and George W. Bush. Wilson's victory imbued the Democratic Party with a progressive idealism later incarnated in FDR, Truman, and LBJ.

1912 changed America.

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Recensione:

"Illuminating and absorbing....An engrossing narrative that is essential reading."
-- Ronald Steel, The New York Review of Books

One of the "Best Books of 2004."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A brisk, consistently entertaining narrative that is alive both to politics and personality."
-- Michael Kazin, Washington Post Book World

L'autore:

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. The former managing editor of Foreign Affairs and editor of World Policy Journal, he is the author of eight previous books, including Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World, which was named Best Book of 1998 by the American Academy of Diplomacy. He lives in New York.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743273559
• ISBN 13: 9780743273558
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352