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

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

Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progressive Era through the story of the broken friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, culminating in their running against one another for president in 1912.

Preface - To Alice Mayhew and Linda Vandegrift

Chapter 1. The Hunter Returns

Chapter 2. Will and Teedie

Chapter 3. The Judge and the Politician

Chapter 4. Nellie Herron Taft

Chapter 5. Edith Carow Roosevelt

Chapter 6. The Insider and the Outsider

Chapter 7. The Invention of McClure’s

Chapter 8. “Like a Boy on Roller Skates”

Chapter 9. Governor and Governor General

Chapter 10. “That Damned Cowboy Is President”

Chapter 11. “The Most Famous Woman in America”

Chapter 12. “A Mission to Perform”

Chapter 13. Toppling Old Bosses

Chapter 14. “Thank Heaven You Are to Be with Me!”

Chapter 15. “A Smile That Won’t Come Off”

Chapter 16. “Sitting on the Lid”

Chapter 17. The American People Reach a Verdict

Chapter 18. “Cast into Outer Darkness”

Chapter 19. “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!”

Chapter 20. Taft Boom, Wall Street Bust

Chapter 21. Kingmaker and King

Chapter 22. “A Great Stricken Animal”

Chapter 23. A Self-Inflicted Wound

Chapter 24. St. George and the Dragon

Chapter 25. “The Parting of the Ways”

Chapter 26. “Like a War Horse”

Chapter 27. “My Hat Is in the Ring”

Chapter 28. “Bosom Friends, Bitter Enemies”

Chapter 29. Armageddon

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

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