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Article: A clash of titans.(1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs--the Election That Changed the Country)(Book Review)
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- The New Leader
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- May 1, 2004
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1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs--the Election That Changed the Country By James Chace Simon & Schuster, 323 pp. $25.95.
DON'T BE PUT OFF by the banal subtitle of James Chace's emotive new book. It was the Presidential contest he explores that fully installed the "modern activist Presidency," which began to show its teeth after Theodore Roosevelt came to the White House in 1901.
When TR left the Oval Office in 1909 he bequeathed it to a dear friend, William Howard Taft--whose wife, Nellie, gloried in her husband's position. Taft himself wished he was on the Supreme Court, and Roosevelt had offered him an appointment as Associate Justice, but he had ...
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