{"product_id":"bully-pulpit-theodore-roosevelt-william-howard-taft-and-the-golden-age-of-journalism","title":"Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Carnegie Medal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoris Kearns Goodwin's \u003ci\u003eThe Bully Pulpit\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bully Pulpit\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoodwin'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 Roosevelt'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bully Pulpit\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 the country closer to its founding ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Doris Kearns Goodwin tells this tale with her usual literary skill and deep research. ... Goodwin not only sheds light on the birth of the modern political world but chronicles a remarkable friendship between two remarkable men.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-- \"The Wall Street Journal\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This sophisticated, character-driven book tells two big stories. . . . This is a fascinating work, even a timely one. . . . It captures the way a political party can be destroyed by factionalism, and it shows the important role investigative journalists play in political life.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-- \"The Economist\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Here is where Goodwin's account soars. She captures with masterly precision the depth of the Roosevelt-Taft relationship, the slow dissolution and the growing disillusion, the awkward attempts at rapprochement, and then the final break....It is a story worth telling, and one well told.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-- \"The Boston Globe\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoris Kearns Goodwin\u003c\/strong\u003e's work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyndon Johnson and the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe earned the Lincoln Prize for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeam of Rivals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg's film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLincoln\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the Carnegie Medal for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bully Pulpit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeadership: In Turbulent Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. 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