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A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history....
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
387 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
From the Publisher: In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly forge a series of agreements that divided up Asia. At the time, Roosevelt was bully-confident about America's future on the continent. But these secret pacts lit the fuse that would-decades later-result in a number...
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
8 CDs (approx. 9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
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Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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"Provides comprehensive information on President William H. Taft and places him within his historical and cultural context. Also explored are the formative events of his times and how he responded"--Provided by publisher.
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