James Chace

1912 (eBook, ePUB)

Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -The Election that Changed the Country

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Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates.

When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a radical reformer on the Bull Moose ticket. Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson, the ex-president of Princeton, astonished everyone by seizing the Democratic nomination from the bosses who had made him New Jersey's governor. Most revealing of the reformist spirit sweeping the land was the charismatic socialist Eugene Debs, who polled an unprecedented one million votes.

Wilson's accidental election had lasting impact on America and the world. The broken friendship between Taft and TR inflicted wounds on the Republican Party that have never healed, and the party passed into the hands of a conservative ascendancy that reached its fullness under Reagan and George W. Bush. Wilson's victory imbued the Democratic Party with a progressive idealism later incarnated in FDR, Truman, and LBJ.

1912 changed America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439188262
• Artikelnr.: 40178169

Autorenporträt

James Chace was the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. The former managing editor of Foreign Affairs and the author of eight previous books, most recently Acheson, he passed away in October 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Prologue: The Defining Moment
Part One: America's Destiny
One: "Back from Elba"
Two: "The Ruthlessness of the Pure in Heart"
Three: The Heirs of Hamilton and Jefferson
Four: The Debs Rebellion
Part Two: Chicago and Baltimore
Five: "Stripped to the Buff"
Six: "A Rope of Sand"
Seven: Standing at Armageddon
Eight: The Fullness of Time
Nine: Baltimore
Ten: The Indispensable Man
Eleven: To Make a Revolution: Debs and Haywood
Part Three: The Contenders
Twelve: The New Freedom vs. the New Nationalism
Thirteen: The Crusader
Fourteen: The Moralist
Fifteen: The Authentic Conservative and the Red Prophet
Sixteen: "To Kill a Bull Moose"
Part Four: The Consequences of Victory
Seventeen: The Ironies of Fate
Eighteen: Endgames
Epilogue: The Inheritors
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Acknowledgments
Index