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

Geoffrey Cowan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
432 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-24985-9 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;The best new discussion of the primary system."e; 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 Rulea cry echoed in todays electionsand 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 Partyonly 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 8 pages of illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1912 • American Politics • Bull Moose • Elections • us history • William Howard Taft
• ISBN-10: 0-393-24985-9 / 0393249859
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24985-9 / 9780393249859