xiv, 910 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [753]-867) and index.
Summary
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.