The Presidency of Theodore RooseveltUniversity Press of Kansas, 1991 - 355 pages Theodore Roosevelt was hearty, frank, freindly, and bold - a president so popular that many Americans believed they knew him personally. Through the force of his personality and excitement of his adventuring, he wove the presidency into the fabric of daily life as no other president had done. Nearly a century later he is remembered as the most colourful chief executive. |
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... trusts and holding companies might stifle economic opportunity for the middle class . Similar apprehensions dur- ing the 1870s and 1880s had led to the enactment of the Interstate Com- merce Act in 1887 and the Sherman Antitrust Act in ...
... trusts and holding companies might stifle economic opportunity for the middle class . Similar apprehensions dur- ing the 1870s and 1880s had led to the enactment of the Interstate Com- merce Act in 1887 and the Sherman Antitrust Act in ...
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... trusts , " one of the chief being over - capitalization because of its many baleful consequences . ' Equally important , " a widespread conviction " existed " in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as trusts ...
... trusts , " one of the chief being over - capitalization because of its many baleful consequences . ' Equally important , " a widespread conviction " existed " in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as trusts ...
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... trusts . The idea of a president's taking an active part in an off - year campaign was an innovation , and the White House told reporters that while Roosevelt's remarks would be " along Republican lines , so far as they may relate to ...
... trusts . The idea of a president's taking an active part in an off - year campaign was an innovation , and the White House told reporters that while Roosevelt's remarks would be " along Republican lines , so far as they may relate to ...
Contents
Keeping the Left Center Together | 225 |
We Were at Absolute Peace | 251 |
There Is No One Like Theodore | 271 |
Copyright | |
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