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Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary
By Cowan, Geoffrey
- ISBN
- 9780393249842 9780393249859
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on February 15, 2016 | Social Sciences
The 1912 presidential election was the first one in which primaries played a significant role. Despite Theodore Roosevelt winning nine of the 13 Republican primaries, William H. Taft was renominated because of his strong support among delegates chosen at state nominating conventions, says Cowan (Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership, Univ. of Southern California; The People v. Clarence Darrow), in this lively, deeply researched narrative, which takes readers f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
