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"The best new discussion of the primary system." Jill Lepore, author of These Truths In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt came out of retirement to challenge William Howard Taft for the Republican nomination. TR seized on the campaign theme Let the People Rulea cry echoed in todays electionsand through the course of his run helped create thirteen new primaries. Though he won most of the primaries, party bosses proved too powerful, and Roosevelt walked out of the convention to create his own Bull Moose Partyonly to make the shocking political calculation to ban black delegates from his new coalition. In Let the People Rule , Geoffrey Cowan takes readers inside the dramatic campaign that changed American politics forever. 8 pages of illustrations

Who reads Let the people rule : Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of the presidential primary?

Author

Cowan, Geoffrey, author

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393249842

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.6 / 5 (82 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13