The Bully Pulpit

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Subjects: nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2013-11-24, Biography Autobiography Memoir, Politics Current Events, Biography & Autobiography, Politics and government, Progressivism (United States politics), Press and politics, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), Republican party (u.s. : 1854-), Taft, william h. (william howard), 1857-1930, Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919, General, New York Times bestseller, United states, politics and government, 1901-1913, Friends and associates, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY / United States / General, History, HISTORY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Friendship

Description: From the country’s leading presidential historian, The Bully Pulpit is a masterful and deeply insightful study of presidents – freshly told through the decades-long and complicated friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Like with Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedys, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin meticulously and with great perception and compassion captures an epic moment in history, when in 1912, Roosevelt and Taft engage in a brutal fight for the presidency – a fight that destroys both their political futures, while seriously weakening the progressive wing of the Republican Party, and dividing their wives, their children, and their closest friends. ([source][1]) [1]: https://doriskearnsgoodwin.com/books/