One of the most eventful and turbulent periods in American history,
Richardson's latest volume in this series covers the period from
the height of the Progressive Era, when Theodore Roosevelt, the
wildly popular, bigger-than-life former President snorted and
thundered against the country's two major parties while trying to
reclaim the White House on his newly-formed Bull Moose Party. The
years immediately prior to World War I also witnessed a broad
movement for socialism in the United States, a period when the
Socialist Party, boasting more than 119,000 dues-paying members and
a vibrant press consisting of 323 publications, claimed nearly
1,200 elected officeholders, including at least seventy-four
mayors, during the party's high-water mark of 1911-12. In addition
to the extraordinary presidential campaign of 1912, in which which
Roosevelt and Socialist Eugene V. Debs combined for nearly five
million votes - or a third of the national total-"OTHERS III" also
includes a fascinating account of Florida's Sidney J. Catts, the
only man in American history ever elected governor on the
Prohibition ticket, and tells the largely-neglected story of how
former Indiana Governor J. Frank Hanly and the Prohibition Party
cost Charles Evans Hughes and the GOP the presidency in 1916.
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