Download or read book The Attempt of William Howard Taft to Break the Solid South written by Ellis Merton Coulter and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Half Century Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Southern History written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Death of the Solid South written by Dewey W. Grantham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system -- long referred to as the Solid South -- embodied a distinctive regional culture and was perpetuated through an undemocratic distribution of power and a structure based on disfranchisement, malapportioned legislatures, and one-party politics. It was the mechanism that determined who would govern in the states and localities, and in national politics it was the means through which the South's politicians defended their region's special interests and political autonomy. The history of this remarkable institution can be traced in the gradual rise, long persistence, and ultimate decline of the Democratic Party dominance in the land below the Potomac and the Ohio. This is the story that Dewey W. Grantham tells in his fresh and authoritative account of the South's modern political experience. The distillation of many years of research and reflection, is both a synthesis of the extensive literature on politics in the recent South and a challenging reinterpretation of the region's political history.
Download or read book Republican Party Politics and the American South 1865 1968 written by Boris Heersink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.
Download or read book Georgians in Profile written by Horace Montgomery and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958.
Download or read book The Alabama Historical Quarterly written by Marie Bankhead Owen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Presidential Election of 1908 written by Alfred Sumberg and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Negro in Virginia Politics 1902 1965 written by Andrew Bunie and published by Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia. This book was released on 1967 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of African Americans' involvement in Virginia politics from 1902-1965.
Download or read book William Howard Taft written by Paolo Enrico Coletta and published by Westport : Meckler. This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bully Pulpit written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie Medal. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is 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 divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country’s history. The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine—Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White—teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.S. McClure. Goodwin’s narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. The correspondence of more than four hundred letters between Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early thirties and ends only months before Roosevelt’s death. Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers wrote hundreds of letters to one another, kept journals, and wrote their memoirs. The letters of Captain Archie Butt, who served as a personal aide to both Roosevelt and Taft, provide an intimate view of both men. The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwin’s brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II, exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history—an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals.
Download or read book Hannis Taylor written by Tennant S. McWilliams and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hannis Taylor ... was a man of insatiable ambition whose career was a long succession of frustrations. But if Taylor never achieved the heights to which he aspired, either in Alabama or in the nation, his persistent opportunism usually assured him a place at least on the fringes of the centers of power. A study of men like Taylor is important, among other reasons ... [for] what it reveals about a particular type of individual [who is] virtually always involved in public affairs and especially in reform movements such as progressivism. In turn, it illuminates progressivism. Moreover, the author takes pains to emphasize the special problems confronting a southerner of the New South variety such as Taylor, who quested for identification with national causes."--Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., the University of Arkansas.
Download or read book The Georgia Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of Negro History written by Carter Godwin Woodson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of the Journal include the broad range of the study of Afro-American life and history.
Download or read book The William Howard Taft Presidency written by Lewis L. Gould and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that "I don't remember that I ever was President." Historians have agreed, and Taft is usually portrayed, when written about at all, as nothing more than a failed chief executive. In this provocative new study, the first treatment of the Taft presidency in four decades, Lewis L. Gould presents a compelling assessment of Taft's accomplishments and setbacks in office. Rich in human interest and fresh analysis of the events of Taft's four years in Washington, Gould's book shows why Taft's presidency is very much worth remembering on its own terms. Gould argues that Taft wanted to be president and had an ambitious agenda when he took power in March 1909. Approaching his duties more as a judge than as a charismatic executive in the mold of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft soon found himself out of step with public opinion. Gould shows how the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy squandered Taft's political capital and prepared the ground for Democratic victories in the elections of 1910 and 1912. His seamless narrative provides innovative treatments of these crucial episodes to make Taft's presidency more understandable than in any previous account. On Canadian Reciprocity, Dollar Diplomacy, and international arbitration, Gould's well-researched work goes beyond earlier stale clichs about Taft's administration to link his tenure to the evolution of the modern presidency. Taft emerges as a hard-working but flawed executive who lacked the excitement of Theodore Roosevelt or the inspiration of Woodrow Wilson. The break with Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 doomed the Taft presidency, and Gould supplies an evenhanded analysis of the erosion of their once warm friendship. At bottom, the two men clashed about the nature of presidential power, and Gould traces with insight how this personal and ideological rupture influenced the future of the Republican party and the course of American politics. In Gould's skilled hands, this neglected presidency again comes alive. Leaving the White House in 1913, Taft wrote that "the people of the United States did not owe me another election." What his presidency deserved is the lively and wise appraisal of his record in office contained in this superb book.
Download or read book Tennessee Republicans in the Era of William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft written by Paul E. Isaac and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on presidential papers and manuscripts in Tennessee, this work details the history of the Republican and Progressive parties during the Progressive era when the Republican party played a more significant role in the state than in any of the former Confederate states. Traces the party relationship with Theodore Roosevelt and its breakup under Taft.
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
