{"product_id":"1912-wilson-roosevelt-taft-and-debs-the-election-that-changed-the-country-9780743273558","title":"1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election That Changed the Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBeginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a radical reformer on the Bull Moose ticket. Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson, the ex-president of Princeton, astonished everyone by seizing the Democratic nomination from the bosses who had made him New Jersey's governor. Most revealing of the reformist spirit sweeping the land was the charismatic socialist Eugene Debs, who polled an unprecedented one million votes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilson's \"accidental\" election had lasting impact on America and the world. The broken friendship between Taft and TR inflicted wounds on the Republican Party that have never healed, and the party passed into the hands of a conservative ascendancy that reached its fullness under Reagan and George W. Bush. Wilson's victory imbued the Democratic Party with a progressive idealism later incarnated in FDR, Truman, and LBJ. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1912 changed America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743273558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.14w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2005 pg. 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/28\/2005 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e86235 \/ 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft \u0026amp; Debs--The Election That Changed the Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.7 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"James Chace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42038570090677,"sku":"9780743273558","price":17.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b4b36982-057f-4e92-88f1-f713abba2aaf.jpg?v=1649737070","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/1912-wilson-roosevelt-taft-and-debs-the-election-that-changed-the-country-9780743273558","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}