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During the campaign for the 1912 elections, Theodore Roosevelt and his collective activists promoted the Progressive Party and its ambitious, prescient program of economic, social, and political reform that posed profound challenges to constitutional government in the U.S. The author revisits this history to show how a party seemingly consumed by its leaders' ambition dominated the election and left an enduring legacy that set in motion the rise of...
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"Progressive era scholarship has traditionally insisted that William Howard Taft was opposed to progressive reforms, emphasizing his 'judicial temperament' and constitutional conservatism. Scholars have buttressed these theoretical arguments by pointing to Taft's break with Theodore Roosevelt and other notable progressives in the election of 1912. In contrast to this view, Kevin Burns argues that Taft's defense of the Constitution was not an attack...
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"This is the first book to analyze the political thought of the scholar-statesman Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003), who was eulogized by the Economist as 'a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers.' Identifying the New Yorker as a 'Burkean liberal' who believed that government does have an important role to play yet should acknowledge its own limitations and society's...