Sublime

The president’s dramatic prosecution of Northern Securities immediately won him popular acclaim as a virile “trustbuster”; and, true enough, over the following seven years, his administration would launch forty-four more antitrust suits against other large corporate combinations, among them such giants as Standard Oil and American Tobacco. But TR w

At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.

Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.

it. Unfazed, Wilson used his power as chief executive to segregate the federal government.

He ran for re-election in 1940, campaigning the same way he had before, again violating every aspect of conventional political wisdom. He had no platform, made no promises and almost no formal speeches, simply driving from one little town to another and talking to small groups of people. He had two opponents. One received 113,000 votes, the other 1

During his second year in the House, he wrote—himself, with no staff assistance—a bill embodying the old People’s Party dream of intensified government regulation of railroads, by giving the government authority over the issuance of new securities by the railroads. Happening, by chance, to see the bill, Louis D. Brandeis, then one of President Wils