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Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy (Paperback)
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Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy (Paperback)
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Led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party made the 1912
campaign a passionate contest for the soul of the American people.
Promoting an ambitious program of economic, social, and political
reform—“New Nationalism”—that posed profound challenges to
constitutional government, TR and his Progressive supporters
provoked an extraordinary debate about the future of the country.
Sidney Milkis revisits this emotionally charged contest to show how
a party seemingly consumed by its leader’s ambition dominated the
election and left an enduring legacy that set in motion the rise of
mass democracy and the expansion of national administrative power.
Milkis depicts the Progressive Party as a collective enterprise of
activists, spearheaded by TR, who pursued a program of reform
dedicated to direct democracy and social justice and a balance
between rights and civic duty. These reformers hoped to create a
new concept of citizenship that would fulfil the lofty aspirations
of “we the people” in a quest for a “more perfect
union”—a quest hampered by fierce infighting over civil rights
and antitrust policy. Milkis shows that the Progressive campaign
aroused not just an important debate over reforms but also a battle
for the very meaning of Progressivism. He describes how Roosevelt
gave focus to the party with his dedication to “pure
democracy”—even shoehorning judicial recall into his professed
“true conservative” stance. Although this pledge to make the
American people “masters of their Constitution” provoked
considerable controversy, Milkis contends that the Progressives
were not all that far removed from the more nationally minded of
the Founders. As Milkis reveals, the party’s faith in a more
plebiscitary form of democracy would ultimately rob it of the very
organization it needed in order to survive after Roosevelt. Yet the
Progressive Party’s program of social reform and “direct
democracy” has reverberated through American
politics—especially in 2008, with Barack Obama appealing to
similar instincts. By probing the deep historical roots of
contemporary developments in American politics, his book shows that
Progressivism continues to shape American politics a century later.
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