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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Let the people rule
    sub title: Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of the presidential primary
  name:
    name part: Cowan, Geoffrey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Let the People Rule tells the exhilarating story of the four-month campaign that changed American politics forever. In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt came out of retirement to challenge his close friend and handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican Party nomination. To overcome the power of the incumbent, TR seized on the idea of presidential primaries, telling bosses everywhere to "Let the People Rule." The cheers and jeers of rowdy supporters and detractors echo from Geoffrey Cowan's pages as he explores TR's fight-to-the-finish battle to win popular support. After sweeping nine out of thirteen primaries, he felt entitled to the nomination. But the party bosses proved too powerful, leading Roosevelt to walk out of the convention and create a new political party of his own. Using a trove of newly discovered documents, Cowan takes readers inside the colorful, dramatic and often mean-spirited campaign, describing the political machinations and intrigue and painting indelible portraits of its larger-than-life characters. But Cowan also exposes the more unsavory parts of TR's campaign, including seamy backroom deals, bribes made in TR's name during the Republican Convention and then the shocking political calculation that led TR to ban any black delegates from the Deep South from his new "Bull Moose Party."
  note: Geoffrey Cowan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    topic: Election
    temporal: 1912
  subject:
    topic: Primaries
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Roosevelt, Theodore
      name part: 1858-1919
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Taft, William H. (William Howard)
      name part: 1857-1930
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    topic: Nomination
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Presidential candidates
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Political campaigns
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1909-1913
  classification: E765 .C69 2016
  identifier: 9780393249842
  identifier: 0393249840
  identifier: 2015032325
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151102
    record change date: 20170928112628.0
    record identifier: in00003609021