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Table of Contents
Prologue: A Night in Milwaukee
Submitted: June 25, 2020
October 14, 1912
Eight P.M.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pressing flesh had become a fact of life over the last deca... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 25, 2020
The United States at the turn of the twentieth century found itself in a position vis a vis the rest of the world few of its founding fat... Read Chapter
The Academic, The Hunter, and the Judge
Submitted: June 26, 2020
If Roosevelt’s presence in the campaign of 1912 was unexpected, few parallels exist for a man coming onto the national radar with the s... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 26, 2020
Of the candidates running in 1912, the man with the most experience as an actual candidate for presidential was not Taft or Roosevelt. An... Read Chapter
Commandeering the Great Commoner
Submitted: June 26, 2020
Wilson had briefly flirted with the idea of a run for one of New Jersey Senate’s two Senate seats several years after taking the helm a... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 26, 2020
When Roosevelt assumed the presidency in September 1901, there had been hope for conservatives in the party that his time in office would... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 28, 2020
Even within the more reactionary Democratic Party, Wilson’s successful run for the governorship was evidence of the growing demand for ... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 28, 2020
Wilson, Roosevelt, and Debs all faced their transformative moments-from Kettle Hill to Pullman-induced strikes and jail time to eating cl... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 29, 2020
The new president’s backing of the Payne-Aldrich tariff was a forgivable sin. Even given the progressive opposition to it, Roosevelt wo... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 29, 2020
Osawatomie, Kansas
August 1910
The idea of a collapse in Roosevelt’s relationship with Taft still appeared a thing o... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 29, 2020
A lot of eyes had looked to see what type of balance Governor Woodrow Wilson would strike between politically expedient centri... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 30, 2020
An untrained first glance might have pegged Wilson as a better comparison to Taft than to TR. After all, both men had highly limited expe... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 30, 2020
While the number of direct primaries had only been a half-dozen before the campaign season got underway, Roosevelt had been able to quick... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 30, 2020
Eugene Debs would begin his long shot 1912 presidential campaign by not taking for granted where his base of support naturally lay: labor... Read Chapter
Submitted: June 30, 2020
The disagreements between Taft and Roosevelt would evolve into the personal sphere as time went on, but they had begun with a difference ... Read Chapter
Submitted: July 01, 2020
Things got off to a rocky start for Roosevelt in the primaries. Even before the first one was held in North Dakota on March 19th, Taft ha... Read Chapter
Submitted: July 01, 2020
The GOP convention opened in Chicago with indecision in the air. While Roosevelt could claim a two to one lead over Taft in delegates at ... Read Chapter
Submitted: July 02, 2020
fDespite Roosevelt’s own break with etiquette, it was still considered unseemly for presidential candidates to show up in person at the... Read Chapter
President Taft and the Demagogues
Submitted: July 04, 2020
For as much as Taft would be pigeonholed as the most conservative of the 1912 candidates, some of his own words and actions as president ... Read Chapter
Submitted: July 04, 2020
The newly formed Progressive Party, broken free from the sort of partisan constraints imposed by Democratic and Republican party dogma an... Read Chapter
Submitted: July 04, 2020
On the same day Roosevelt gave his “Confession of Faith” to the new organization’s rambunctious delegates, Governor Wilson delivere... Read Chapter
Submitted: July 04, 2020
The presidential campaigns of the early twentieth century were not the seemingly endless campaign season of today. The heavy lifting woul... Read Chapter
Submitted: July 04, 2020
With less than a month to go until election day, the presidential race had all but boiled down to two men. Taft had faded, likely to a di... Read Chapter
Submitted: July 04, 2020
By Election Day TR had traveled over ten thousand miles en route to visiting thirty-four states. 25.1 Although Wilson and Debs had ... Read Chapter
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