Let the People Rule

Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary

Geoffrey Cowan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2017
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35369-3 (ISBN)

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"The best new discussion of the primary system." —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths

In 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 readers inside the dramatic campaign that changed American politics forever.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	8 pages of illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 211 mm
Gewicht	339 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-393-35369-9 / 0393353699
ISBN-13	978-0-393-35369-3 / 9780393353693
Zustand	Neuware