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he was an adept speaker on financial and economic issues,

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

The Little Flower mastered even the city’s most unmasterable element: its government.

modus vivendi

That Woodrow Wilson, a Southerner, would seek to roll back empires made sense. His sympathy for the colonized was no doubt fueled by his anger at how the North had treated what Wilson called its “conquered possessions”—the former Confederate states—after the Civil War. But there was another, darker side to Wilson’s Southern identity. He was not jus

Clearly, Billings’s strategy of placing top priority on westward extension had prevailed, and in fact, this NP faction that looked west got something in return.

To a man of such deep convictions, there was something almost immoral about the Johnson campaign, with its theatrics, its use of money, the unadorned appeal to selfishness in its argument that Johnson should be elected because he could get more federal contracts for Texas. Moreover, Roosevelt supporter though Mann was, he was disturbed at the bruta

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