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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism Copertina flessibile – 9 settembre 2014

Edizione Inglese di Doris Kearns Goodwin (Autore)
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  1. Lunghezza stampa
    892 pagine
  2. Lingua
    Inglese
  3. Editore
    Simon & Schuster
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    9 settembre 2014
  5. Dimensioni
    15.56 x 4.57 x 23.5 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1416547878
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1416547877
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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; New edizione (9 settembre 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 892 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1416547878
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1416547877
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 1,19 Kilograms
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 15.56 x 4.57 x 23.5 cm
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PugLover
5,0 su 5 stelle Fabulous read! Thanks for authors like Doris Kearns Goodwin
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 1 luglio 2023
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I love the way this book is written. Full of fact but the narrative flows like a really good story. I admire the amount of research this author did putting this book together. It makes me wish that we still had politicians that had the talent and training of Roosevelt and Taft. Men of honor and purpose and respect for individualism and community. and the desire to do what was right for the masses of Americans.
Whether or not you agree with what these men did or how they did it, they were definitely leaders. They knew how to unite and lead a country. They knew how to define issues and craft solutions, something that is sorely missing in current political climate. Ms. Goodwin, unknowlingly perhaps, has put together what I feel is a telling commentary on why this country is in the state it is in. Making the rash assumption that any of our curdrent politicians even know how to read or check out a book from the library, I suggest they give it a read and then try to learn from their obvious betters. If you just want to learn a little bit of political history, this is still a great book. I checked it out several times from my local library but decided I wanted a copy in my own library. It was money well spent. I plan to read more of Ms. Goodwin's work. It's no wonder she won the Pulitizer Prize for her history on Franklin and Eleanore Roosevelt (also an excellent read!). I wish I had her talent.
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M Clark
5,0 su 5 stelle A 900 page book that wets your appetite to read more about this period
Recensito in Germania il 23 gennaio 2019
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This is an outstanding biography of Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft and the Muckraker journalist movement. At 900 pages, my main criticism of the book is that it is too short since it wets the appetite to learn about this period. That said, the book would have been helped by the addition of at least one chapter providing a critical appraisal of the main figures.
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David Povey
5,0 su 5 stelle Wonderful, human history
Recensito in Australia il 3 febbraio 2017
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I have been remarkably unaware of US history and Goodwin's book is a marvellous introduction. This is a first class political history and so much more than that. The characters rise from the pages clad in their humanity. I have not had so much pleasure from reading for an age, thanks to Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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Rule 62 Ken
5,0 su 5 stelle An Ambitious Undertaking Becomes Delightful History
Recensito in Canada il 21 gennaio 2014
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The Bully Pulpit is a most ambitious work for author Doris Kearns Goodwin. In the book she not only tackles the story of the larger than life President Theodore Roosevelt, she also takes on the life the judicious and affable William Howard Taft (large in another sense - he was over 300 pounds), Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. The relationship between the two men is complicated and complex. But even that's not enough for the industrious author; she also tells us about some of the most famous and iconic journalists of the era, a time before electronic media when investigative reporters and the articles they wrote for magazines like McClure's had the power to shape and mold public policy and legislative trends.

But as she proved in Team of Rivals, Goodwin always produces first rate history, and she comes through once again in this book. In 750 pages, she is able to tackle all of these complicated lives and stories, and combines meticulous research with the style of an engaging storyteller to make her characters come alive. Goodwin has said in interviews that when she is writing a book, it is as if she is living with its subjects, and she is able to transmit this same sensation to the reader. It is as if Roosevelt, Taft, their spouses, and the interesting array of journalists (like S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, Ray Baker, John Phillips, Lincoln Steffens and William White) are friends, acquaintances or contemporaries of the reader.

Goodwin opens with Roosevelt's triumphant return from safari, one year after he has left the presidency, setting the mood for a political clash of the titans. This epic political battle is set up as we are then given the background of the book's two main characters. Roosevelt emerges from childhood illness and a privileged background to overcome his physical challenges through sheer determination. He becomes a human dynamo, a bundle of energy forever tilting at the windmills of social injustice, whether it be as a civil service commissioner, as a state politician, as New York City police commissioner, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, as a "rough rider" in the Spanish-American War, as Governor of New York or as Vice-President of the United States. Meanwhile, Taft establishes his reputation as an honest, friendly, likeable and exceedingly fair lawyer and judge and later as the beloved and enlightened Governor-General of the Philippines, a man with the foresight to see past the racial and nationalistic prejudices of his time.

When Roosevelt becomes President following the assassination of William McKinley, he calls on Taft to serve as his key cabinet member and advisor. The two men develop a strong friendship and trust and Roosevelt anoints Taft as his successor as President. The two develop what at first appears to be an unassailable friendship. But a year into Taft's presidency, a rift develops between the two men, as Roosevelt perceives Taft as being disloyal to the cause of progressive reform. Goodwin does not offer an opinion of who is to blame, but gives the reader sufficient information to form one's own opinion, although she does concede one obvious factor: Roosevelt's gigantic ego.

In 1912, Roosevelt challenges Taft for the Republican nomination for president, vowing to run as a third party candidate if unsuccessful. For me this was the most interesting part of the book, as Goodwin gives a very entertaining blow-by-blow account of the election campaign: the key events, the strategies, and those inevitable unexpected occurrences that find their way into every election campaign. This was the most engaging part of the book for me.

A select few history writers have the ability to recount historical facts and turn it into a compelling, interesting and enjoyable story, and Doris Kearns Goodwin is one of the foremost among this group. She has the ability to take names from the pages of history books and turn them into fascinating personalities and to make the reader feel like he or she is present as these historically captivating events are unfolding. She has done it again with The Bully Pulpit, a most engaging and entertaining account of two complex presidents and the exciting times in which they lived.
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mishmish
5,0 su 5 stelle Two Presidents and the Era of Reform
Recensito in Francia il 11 maggio 2014
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This unusually long book (750 pages) never lost my interest, always kept me absorbed, was never tedious in spite of detailed descriptions of public and private life during Theodore Roosevelt's and William Howard Taft's presidencies. I had already read several books on Theodore Roosevelt who is such a colorful figure, but knew little about William Howard Taft who comes alive in these pages as a benign and friendly character almost pushed into a presidential role which he did not feel was suitable for him. As for the great friendship between the two men, like all political friendships, it was doomed to end when personal ambitions took over.
Wives, children, brothers and friends are delineated to round out the portraits and actions of the two presidents and of course the
press also plays a big role in the book and is instrumental in rousing public opinion and pushing through legislation to overthrow the trusts, to attack the bosses and their political power and to try to rid the US of corruption at all levels of politics.
Any reader interested in the politics of the United States and particularly in that period will not be disappointed on reading this book. Also, I couldn't help thinking how much light it also throws on the problems facing the United States today, problems of inequality, of the role of money in elections, the changing roles of women, problems of racism in the Philippines...
To sum up: totally engrossing!
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