THE PRESIDENT MAKERS

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With this third of his large panels of American developing
American civilization and political culture in the Industrial Age,
Matthew Josephson brings the reader virtually to the present day.

...Of combined historical narrative and group biography" ...

Unlike the preceding *studios* period of "The Robber Barons" and "The Politicos", the period from 1896 to 1919, *XX* with its two wars saw the coming of age of a group of educated and gifted leaders typified by Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson, and their adviser friends and sponsors. In these circles a *very* keenly critical attitude toward the ways of their elders and predecessors flourished; and plans were made far in advance by the "President Makers" to develop new ideas and tactics of leadership and deal with the large social and political problems left upon their hands by the heedless strenuous *studious* building and political *studiousness* spoilsmanship of the past.

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A renaissance of politics took place toward the beginning of the twentieth century. For the first time in three decades men of "talent and wealth" thought it fitting that they should enter public life and endeavor to play a leading part in it, instead of leaving the government of the nation to party-hacks.

This is the chronicle of the men of education, the reformers who entered public life to redeem our politics.

... Men who seem far more cultured, social-minded, and in the best sense of the term, patriotic. We follow them from their first steps, watch them climbing the ladder of parties, filled with ambition, intriguing and intrigued against. They wished to save our political government from corruption, and the country from the excesses of ruthless capitalists as from proletarian radicals.

They charted the course of political reform in the Sququare Deal and the New Freedom,

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