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I've started to read The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, the new book from Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals). The first bit was a tad slow, as it covered familiar ground of the young life of TR and Taft, but it picked up as it started to detail how their paths began to cross. There is a parallel story of McClure's Magazine, the development of muckraking journalism, and TR's relationship with the press, which would probably make a book in itself. I think it is a bully story.
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