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1912 - by James Chace (Paperback)

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  • Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates.
  • About the Author: James Chace was the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College.
  • 336 Pages
  • Political Science, American Government

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About the Book



Chace spotlights the dazzling political circus of the hard-fought election of 1912 between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson--a defining moment in American history that forever transformed the nation's political landscape.



Book Synopsis



Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates.

When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a radical reformer on the Bull Moose ticket. Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson, the ex-president of Princeton, astonished everyone by seizing the Democratic nomination from the bosses who had made him New Jersey's governor. Most revealing of the reformist spirit sweeping the land was the charismatic socialist Eugene Debs, who polled an unprecedented one million votes.

Wilson's "accidental" election had lasting impact on America and the world. The broken friendship between Taft and TR inflicted wounds on the Republican Party that have never healed, and the party passed into the hands of a conservative ascendancy that reached its fullness under Reagan and George W. Bush. Wilson's victory imbued the Democratic Party with a progressive idealism later incarnated in FDR, Truman, and LBJ.

1912 changed America.



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"A brisk, consistently entertaining narrative that is alive both to politics and personality."
-- Michael Kazin, Washington Post Book World

"Illuminating and absorbing....An engrossing narrative that is essential reading."
-- Ronald Steel, The New York Review of Books

One of the "Best Books of 2004."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review



About the Author



James Chace was the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. The former managing editor of Foreign Affairs and the author of eight previous books, most recently Acheson, he passed away in October 2004.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.28 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .86 Inches (D)
Weight: .88 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 336
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: American Government
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: James Chace
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 2005
TCIN: 1008938838
UPC: 9780743273558
Item Number (DPCI): 247-18-0783
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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