Unreasonable Men
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Unreasonable Men

Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics

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Unreasonable Men

Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics

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At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street's corrupting influence from Washington. Their opponents called them "radicals, " and "fanatics." They called themselves Progressives.President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved of La Follette's confrontational methods. Fearful of splitting the party, he compromised with the conservative House Speaker, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, to pass modest reforms. But as La Follette's crusade gathered momentum, the country polarized, and the middle ground melted away. Three years after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt embraced La Follette's militant tactics and went to war against the Republican establishment, bringing him face to face with his handpicked successor, William Taft. Their epic battle shattered the Republican Party and permanently realigned the electorate, dividing the country into two camps: Progressive and Conservative.
Unreasonable Men takes us into the heart of the epic power struggle that created the progressive movement and defined modern American politics. Recounting the fateful clash between the pragmatic Roosevelt and the radical La Follette, Wolraich's riveting narrative reveals how a few Republican insurgents broke the conservative chokehold on Congress and initiated the greatest period of political change in America's history.

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781137438089
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Chapter 1: The Bolt
  6. Chapter 2: The Railroad
  7. Chapter 3: The Muck Rake
  8. Chapter 4: The Panic
  9. Chapter 5: The Money Power
  10. Chapter 6: The Smile
  11. Chapter 7: The Tariff
  12. Chapter 8: The Insurgency
  13. Chapter 9: The Progressive
  14. Chapter 10: The Bull Moose
  15. Epilogue
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Copyright