Geoffrey Cowan

Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary

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The best new discussion of the primary system. —Jill Lepore, author of These TruthsIn 1912, Theodore Roosevelt came out of retirement to challenge William Howard Taft for the Republican nomination. TR seized on the campaign theme Let the People Rule”—a cry echoed in today's elections—and through the course of his run helped create thirteen new primaries. Though he won most of the primaries, party bosses proved too powerful, and Roosevelt walked out of the convention to create his own Bull Moose Party—only to make the shocking political calculation to ban black delegates from his new coalition. In Let the People Rule, Geoffrey Cowan takes read… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-24985-9
EAN: 9780393249859
Produktnummer: 34248119
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 432 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'389 KB
Abbildungen: 8 pages of illustrations

Über den Autor

Geoffrey Cowan, former president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at the University of Southern California, is the best-selling author of The People v. Clarence Darrow. He lives in Los Angeles.