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Americans sensed in 1912 that they stood at a turning point in the nation's history. This title demonstrates why the people who lived and fought this significant election were more right than they could ever have known.

Offers a interpretive synthesis filled with intriguing insights into the presidency's evolution during America's rise to global prominence. This title traces the decline of the party system, the increasing importance of the media and its role in creating the president-as-celebrity, and the growth of the White House staff and executive bureaucracy.

Offers a synthesis filled with intriguing insights into the presidency's evolution during America's rise to global prominence. This title traces the decline of the party system, the increasing importance of the media and its role in creating the president-as-celebrity, and the growth of the White House staff and executive bureaucracy.

The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that 'I don't remember that I ever was President'. This title presents an assessment of Taft's accomplishments and setbacks in office. It shows why Taft's presidency is very much worth remembering on its own terms.

Alexander Terrell's career placed him at the center of some of the most pivotal events in nineteenth and early twentieth-century history, ranging from the Civil War to Emperor Maximilian's reign over Mexico and an Armenian genocide under the Ottoman Empire. This title explores Terrell's life.

As standard bearer of the Progressive Party in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt played to enthusiastic crowds wherever he traveled. When he was targeted by an assassin while campaigning for president, a bullet passed through the speech in his breast pocket-pages that he then held aloft while assuring the crowd "It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose . . . and you cannot escape listening to this speech!" This first full edition of his campaign sp...

This fascinating study brings a shadowy first lady into the light and restores her to a rightful place as a patron of music. Helen Herron Taft came to the White House intent on establishing Washington, D.C., as the nation's cultural capital. Historians have written her off as a shrewish figure who pushed her portly husband into the presidency. Gould challenges this narrative with new information on Helen Taft's campaign to bring the best of cl...

In this interpretation of the McKinley presidency Lewis L. Gould contends that William McKinley was the first modern president. Making use of extensive original research in manuscript collections in the United States, Great Britain, and France, Gould argues that during McKinley's four and a half years in the White House the executive office began to resemble the institution as the twentieth century would know it. He rejects the erroneous stere...

Providing video companionship for isolated housewives, afternoon babysitting for children, and nonstop evening entertainment for the whole family, television revolutionized American society in the post-World War II years. Helping the first TV generation make sense of the new medium was the mission of Jack Gould, television critic of The New York Times from 1947 to 1972. In columns noteworthy for crisp writing, pointed insights, and fair judgme...