The Bully Pulpit Audiobook by Doris Kearns Goodwin

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/30/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bully Pulpit Subtitle: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Unabridged Length: 36 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-13 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2432 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures Publisher's Summary: Audie Award, History/Biography, 2015 After Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin wields her magic on another larger-than-life president, and another momentous and raucous American time period as she brings Theodore Roosevelt, the muckraking journalists, and the Progressive Era to life. As she focused on the relationships between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in No Ordinary Time, and on Lincoln and his team in Team of Rivals, Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the "muckraking" press - including legendary journalists Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, William Allen White, and editor Sam McClure - Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money men and big business. The rupture between the two led Roosevelt to run against Taft for president, an ultimately futile race that resulted in the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson and the diminishment of Theodore Roosevelt's progressive wing of the Republican Party. Like Goodwin's chronicles of the Civil War and the Great Depression, The Bully Pulpit describes a time in our history that enlightened and changed the country, ushered in the modern age, and produced some unforgettable men and women. Critic Reviews: Few audio productions this year are likely to match, or deserve as much praise as, this history of the Progressive Era and the presidential friendship that shaped, and was destroyed by, its politics Edward Herrmann is simply her most simpatico readerhis steady, unflagging delivery is perfectly attuned to her narrative voice and, without mimicry, to the broad array of voices, personalities, and events that highlight this rich personal and social drama. ( AudioFile) Swiftly moving account of a friendship that turned sour, broke a political party in two and involved an insistent, omnipresent press corps. . . . Its no small achievement to have something new to say on Teddy Roosevelts presidency, but Goodwin succeeds admirably. A notable, psychologically charged study in leadership.( Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review)