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29 Dec 2017, 2:00 pm
The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy by William Strauss and Neil Howe (1997)18. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 2:00 am by NCC Staff
Wilson appointed his son-in-law, Treasury Secretary William McAdoo, as administrator for the United States Railroad Administration. [read post]
17 Dec 2017, 3:54 pm by Smita Ghosh
Roosevelt: A Political Life, which admits that “Dallek’s is a workmanlike addition to the literature on Roosevelt,” but offers “little to distinguish it from the many excellent biographies that came before it and on which it draws. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 10:00 am by Peter Margulies
Roosevelt’s request that authorized the president to exclude foreign nationals “prejudicial to the interests of the United States. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The rivalry of the “official” Cold War may have ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December, 1991, but John Lewis Gaddis still has an ax to grind. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 4:30 am by Guest Blogger
President Franklin Roosevelt’s ill-fated proposal for “judicial reorganization,” or less euphemistically “Court-packing,” not unlike the Federalist Party’s lame-duck judicial reform of 1801, became an infamous case of political overreach. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
 The precedent held after the deaths of six Presidents in office – Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding and Franklin Roosevelt. [read post]
5 Nov 2017, 2:45 am by NCC Staff
Instead, he backed William Howard Taft as a surrogate candidate, but the urge to control his own political party lead Roosevelt back to the campaign trail in 1912. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 3:15 am by NCC Staff
Party bosses Mark Hanna and Thomas Platt were able to “kick Roosevelt upstairs” as the vice presidential nominee in 1900 for the incumbent President, William McKinley. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In the summer of 1905, Roosevelt sent Vice President William Howard Taft, seven senators, twenty-three representatives, his notorious daughter Alice, and about forty additional aids, servants, and hangers-on on a three month cruise of the Pacific on the passenger ship Manchurian. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” In the second rank Roosevelt placed Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 4:00 am by Matthew Kahn
President William Henry Harrison’s most notable legacy is his unfortunate death 41 days after taking the oath of office. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 2:50 am by NCC Staff
The West Wing was expanded under William Howard Taft and Franklin D Roosevelt, but it was Teddy who got the facility built. [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 2:55 am by NCC Staff
He was 42 years old when he became president on the death of William McKinley. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 2:30 am by NCC Staff
His son, William Howard Taft, was Roosevelt’s Secretary of War after leaving the Philippines. [read post]