From Barnes & NobleOn March 9th, 1909, Theodore Roosevelt left the White House after two triumphant terms, confident that his friend and chosen successor William Howard Taft would carry on his progressive reforms. On his return to the country the following year from touring Africa and Europe, he broke bitterly with the new president, now convinced that Taft had done nothing less than betray him and his country. In her first book since 2005's acclaimed Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the struggle between a larger than life president and a chief executive determined to dilute his reforms. (P.S. This guaranteed bestseller not only trumpets the pronouncement TR's famous "bully pulpit." It also spotlights the crucial investigations of muckraking journalists.
