"the bully pulpit" summary
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Laura Flippin loves reading about American presidents and has found a biography that truly captures the essence of a specific time period of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.TRANSCRIPT
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“The Bully Pulpit”by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Presentation by Laura Flippin, Lawyer and Lover of American Government History
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer, historian, and political commentator
• Author of 6 critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling books
• Known for appearances and commentary on TV: NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CNN, The Tonight Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
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Doris Kearns Goodwin• Earned a Ph.D in Government from Harvard
University
• She taught Government at Harvard, including a course on the American Presidency
• Was an Assistant to
President Lyndon B.
Johnson for his last year
in the White House and
assisted his preparation
of memoirs
• Resides in Concord, MA with her husband
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“The Bully Pulpit”
• Won the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
• One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, and USA Today
• A dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era- a time when reform was in the air
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The Narrative
• The story is told through the friendship of Theadore Roosevelt (L) and William Howard Taft (R)
• Their friendship strengthens until 1912 when they both fight for the presidential nomination
• Their argument results in Democrat Woodrow Wilson’s win for president
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Primary Materials
• Goodwin includes the 400 letters between Roosevelt and Taft beginning in their early 30s up to Roosevelt’s death
• Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft also kept diaries
• The Muckraker’s letters and journals are also incorporated
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Muckrakers• The muckrakers are journalists trying to expose
the governments secrets: corrupt politicians, corporate exploiters of our natural resources
• Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White under the publisher S. S. McClure
Ida Tarbell Ray Stannard BakerLincoln SteffensWilliam Allen White
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The Washington Post
“Goodwin’s evocative examination of the Progressive world is smart and engaging, and if she presents a bit too much about family trees and legislative wrangling, her style shows her imitating the amassing of evidence pioneered by the muckrakers. Like them, she presents a highly readable and detailed portrait of an era. ‘The Bully Pulpit’ brings the early 20th century to life and firmly establishes the crucial importance of the press to Progressive politics.”
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Laura Flippin• Laura Flippin is currently a partner in DLA
Piper’s Litigation practice
• She attended the University of Virginia School of Law and in addition to her JD, earned a masters in American Government
• Loves reading about biographies of
American presidents, especially
“The Bully Pulpit”