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12 Jun 2016, 3:25 am
" Also in the New Rambler Review is Martha Minow's review of Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary by Geoffrey Cowan.The New York Review of Books has a review of David Cole's Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law. [read post]
29 Jan 2017, 12:00 am
”)In the NY Times, Michael Lind reviews journalist and historian Stephen Kinzer’s The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire, which locates American interventionism in the Spanish-American war. [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 2:44 pm
Now that I think of it, “trust” became a dirty word already for a previous generation of Americans—the Populists and Progressives who learned that the newly gigantic corporate “trusts” were a new form of power over individuals that needed to be curbed, leading to the emergence of a whole new area of law called “antitrust” as well as “trust busters” like Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 12:59 pm
In New York City, for example, a statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the New York Museum of Natural History that was explicitly considered by the Mayor’s Committee, which recommended against removing it, has now been slated for removal because it demeans African- and Native-Americans in placing them in a decidedly subordinate position to Roosevelt atop his horse. [read post]
1 Jan 2019, 7:19 am
For they know that, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, that if they fail, then they "fail while daring greatly, so that [their] place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 6:23 am
In a 1905 speech to Congress, President Theodore Roosevelt proposed that corporations be forbidden by law from contributing "to any political committee or for any political purpose. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 3:46 am
., swept through the city on Sunday night, toppling statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and damaging the entrance to the Oregon Historical Society in a demonstration against colonization and the treatment of Native Americans. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
” At the turn of the next century, the great reformer Theodore Roosevelt saw this same tension. [read post]
26 Jun 2022, 12:28 am
The main residence of Veraton, circa 1907. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 3:02 pm
In their first year, Theodore Roosevelt issued 128 grants, Franklin Roosevelt 167 and Truman 107.... [read post]
29 May 2015, 3:00 am
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22 Nov 2007, 12:39 pm
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, Address before the Hamilton Club in Chicago, Illinois (April 10, 1899), in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches 1 (Brian MacArthur ed., 1992). [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 2:17 pm
At bottom, the Court’s opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 1:36 pm
Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed “the military tent, where all sleep side-by-side, will rank next to the public school among the great agents of democratization. [read post]
22 Nov 2007, 12:39 pm
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, Address before the Hamilton Club in Chicago, Illinois (April 10, 1899), in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches 1 (Brian MacArthur ed., 1992). [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 3:56 pm
In their first year, Theodore Roosevelt issued 128 grants, Franklin Roosevelt 167 and Truman 107. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 8:33 am
Three previous Presidents were awarded the prize for this reason: Theodore Roosevelt (1906) for brokering peace between Japan and Russia; Woodrow Wilson (1919) for his work as the principal architect of the League of Nations; and Jimmy Carter (2002) for his work in promoting peace, human rights and democracy. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 9:00 pm
Beyond the developed area around the huge statue of Theodore Roosevelt, trails go around the entire island, including views of Georgetown. [read post]
29 May 2017, 3:00 am
Roosevelt). [read post]
16 Feb 2008, 11:13 pm
Or, Teddy Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt made a similar leap in his return appearance in the campaign of 1912, Ms. [read post]
