The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism Summary
Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism Summary

In the early years of the 20th Century, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft formed a political and personal alliance that reconfigured American history. Their effectiveness was amplified by a working relationship with muckraking journalists, but Taft and Roosevelt then drifted apart and become enemies—never to fully reconcile.

The author describes Taft as the more scholarly, careful politician whose real ambition was to sit on the Supreme Court. Although a...

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