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The Republican Party stood at the brink of a civil war. After a devastating financial crisis in 1907, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands led by “Fighting Bob” La Follette of Wisconsin vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street’s corrupting influence from Washington. Their opponents called them “radicals,” “demagogues,” and “fanatics.” They called themselves Progressives.
President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved of La Follette’s confrontational methods. Fearful of splitting the party, he compromised with “Uncle Joe” Cannon, the powerful Speaker of the House, and Nelson Aldrich, the master of the Senate, to pass modest reforms. But as La Follette’s crusade gathered momentum, the country polarized, and the middle ground melted away. Three years after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt embraced La Follette’s militant tactics and went to war against the Republican establishment, bringing him face to face with his handpicked successor, William Taft. Their epic battle shattered the Republican Party and permanently realigned the electorate, dividing the country into two camps: Progressive and Conservative.
Unreasonable Men takes us into the heart of the epic power struggle that created the progressive movement and defined modern American politics. Recounting the fateful clash between the pragmatic Roosevelt and the radical La Follette, Wolraich’s riveting narrative reveals how a few Republican insurgents broke the conservative chokehold on Congress and initiated the greatest period of political change in America’s history.
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Michael Wolraich is a journalist and historian who writes about historical events to illuminate modern politics. He founded the political blog dagblog.com, and his writing has appeared at The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, CNN, Reuters, TalkingPointsMemo.com, and Pando Daily. Wolraich grew up in Iowa and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts. He now lives in New York.
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: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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Michael WolraichBLOWING SMOKE: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual (Da Capo Press, 2010)
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“Michael Wolraich has that special ability to be immersed in the present and bring its insights to the past while still accepting, understanding it on its own terms. Here he brings to life the century old battle where progressive reformism emerged paradoxically out of a civil war within the GOP. A must read.”
— Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher of Talking Points Memo, Polk Award winner
“This is a fascinating, thoroughly readable account of the rise of Progressivism in America, with a detailed portrait of the rivalry between the two giants of that movement, Teddy Roosevelt and Fighting Bob La Follette. It’s a great addition to the history of the period, and it sheds some crucial light on our current moment.”
— Matthew Rothschild, senior editor at The Progressive
“Unreasonable Men is a shrewd and vividly written account of a conflict that defined the politics of the Progressive Era. It is also a timely story: the same argument between foes and defenders of corporate power which raged a century ago can be heard in our partisan battles today.”
— Michael Kazin, editor of Dissent, Professor of History at Georgetown University, author of American Dreamers: How the Left Shaped a Nation
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“Unreasonable Men offers a good, hopeful read for these politically slow early summer days. And, yes, there once were progressive Republicans.”
— AlterNet
“In Unreasonable Men, Michael Wolraich has tapped into an historical goldmine: that turn of the century period when insurgent Republicans drove the progressive movement in America. With impressive documentation, Wolraich expands our understanding of the very different and decidedly more conservative Republican Party of today.”
— Thomas B. Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
“Unreasonable Men recounts the nation’s dramatic transformation as political focus shifted from promoting the interests of the wealthiest Americans to protecting its everyday citizens. Wolraich's engaging narrative recaptures the excitement and suspense of the nation’s turn from conservatism to progressivism. For a nation facing a similar crisis over the role of government today, this book offers inspiration and illustrates the power of fearless leaders committed to real change for the betterment of all.”
— Nancy C. Unger, Professor of History at Santa Clara University and author of Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer
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“As Michael Wolraich argues in his sharp, streamlined new book, Unreasonable Men, it was ‘the greatest period of political change in American history.’...Wolraich is at his lucid best in explaining the parliamentary maneuvers by which [House Speaker ‘Uncle Joe’] Cannon was outsmarted in 1910...Unreasonable Men invites comparison with another book on the same era, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit...If I had to choose between them, I would go with Unreasonable Men.”
— The Washington Post
“From 1904-1912, the American political system underwent enormous growing pains, and political writer Wolraich (Blowing Smoke) gives this decade an exhaustive, detailed examination, from the first ‘creeping sense’ of a new political body into a ‘war with only two sides’ that birthed America’s enduring bipartisan identities...Wolraich probes this historic moment in light of an American political reawakening to the idea of the interests of the citizens as separate from, and potentially victim to, the interests of corporations and capital holders; it is a mighty and relevant insight into the cyclical nature of history.”
— Publishers Weekly
“In his engaging new book, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics, Michael Wolraich provides a meticulously researched look into the power struggle that created the progressive movement and changed the history of America.”
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***** Recommended by the Washington Post, 50 notable works of nonfiction for 2014 *****
“As Michael Wolraich argues in his sharp, streamlined new book, Unreasonable Men, it was ‘the greatest period of political change in American history.’...Unreasonable Men invites comparison with another book on the same era, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit...If I had to choose between them, I would go with Unreasonable Men.” —The Washington Post
“exceptionally modern...lively, passionate and cinematic...the book almost reads like a political thriller” —LSE Review of Books
“a mighty and relevant insight into the cyclical nature of history” —Publishers Weekly
“A must read.” —Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
“Wolraich has tapped into an historical goldmine.” —Thomas Edsall, New Republic, New York Times, professor of journalism at Columbia University
“engaging...meticulously researched” —National Memo
“fascinating, thoroughly readable” —Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive magazine
“shrewd and vividly written” —Michael Kazin, Dissent magazine, professor of history at Georgetown University
“Wolraich’s engaging narrative recaptures the excitement and suspense of the nation’s turn from conservatism to progressivism.” —Nancy C. Unger, Fighting Bob La Follette, professor of history at Santa Clara University
“an engaging survey of a movement's progress from radical extremism to conventional wisdom” —Kirkus Reviews
“a good, hopeful read for these politically slow early summer days” —AlterNet
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August 15, 2014
Michael Wolraich describes an epic political drama in Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels who Created Progressive Politics, released last month. In an interview with the Theodore Roosevelt Center, Wolraich discusses the writing process, political cartoons, and his favorite image of TR.
Q: What archival sources did you use during the course of writing this book?
A: I used some archival material, but most of it was secondary sources, published letters, and newspapers. With TR, there’s so much material, and all the letters are published in books. Where I went to the archives were for people like Bob La Follette who had been a little less well covered.
Q: La Follette emerges as one of the most interesting and dynamic people in your book. How did your thoughts on him evolve during the course of the research process?
A: He was hard to penetrate. Neither TR nor La Follette are particularly personally reflective. La Follette talked a lot about the issues he was fighting and strategizing for. One of the challenges was to try and peel back the onion a little bit. You can get to know him better by the things he was saying and what his wife was saying about him in her letters, because she was talking more expressively.
Q: Each chapter begins with a quote from Speaker of the House “Uncle Joe” Cannon. At what point in the writing process, did you know that you were going to start each chapter with a quote from him?
A: I find starting chapters with an epigraph helps to set the tone. Originally, I was thinking I would use quotes from different characters for each chapter. Uncle Joe just had the best quotations and I felt that there was something about having his “voice” at the beginning of each chapter. It enriched the story.
Q: During the course of writing the book, what directions did you resist following or what directions did you wish to pursue?
A: Good question. There weren’t so much directions as details that I would have loved to be able to invest more in – details and subjects. There are some themes that get short shrift, such as race relations and gender equality. These are issues I touch on here and there, but they are such important issues.
Q: When working with TR, there are so many different personas that people know about. Is there any particular photo or image that stands out to you?
A: I love the photo on the cover. I didn’t pick it out, the publisher did, but I definitely approve. Another photo that stands out to me doesn’t include TR but is a picture of the Big Four Senators: Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, John Spooner of Wisconsin, Orville Platt of Connecticut, William Allison of Iowa. These four guys ruled the senate for about two decades, through both of Roosevelt’s terms. The picture shows them sitting on chairs on the porch at Aldrich’s sprawling estate in Rhode Island. The photo captures an image of four friends enjoying an afternoon along the sea, but they were also the four most powerful men in the country at that time. All four of them together struck me as this quiet image of power.
Q: One of the things I enjoyed about your writing was your ability to set a scene. For example, the ice and fireworks during Taft’s inauguration (p. 155). How does your scene setting ability reflect your approach to writing history?
A: My theory is to reach a wide audience. I write for a popular audience, not necessarily for academics, so I need to bring people into the moment and the way I try to do that is with the details of the event. I want people to feel that they are there. I love that fireworks scene. It’s one of the first scenes that I wrote. My original idea was to start the book with Taft’s inauguration, all the pomp and circumstance, celebration, and blizzards. Reading about that and putting myself there, I tried to communicate that to the readers.
Q: I like the history in political cartoons that is featured on your website. How did looking at the cartoons enrich your writing process?
A: Thanks for checking it out. The cartoon adds color to my understanding of the era. You can read the serious accounts, both from the people of the time and the historians. It’s the wry perspective and the little humorous details that you get in a cartoon. They just create a much richer picture of how people thought back then. I loved looking at them as I was writing and I was excited to compile them on the website.
Wolraich’s book is available now in bookstores and online. For more political cartoons, please visit
http://www.michaelwolraich.com/unreas... and the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library.
The Republican Mona Lisa - can he get away with it?, originally published 1911....Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Center
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“The Ted Cruz of his day”: How Robert La Follette explains today’s dysfunction
Our politics of corporate domination and right-wing intransigence has a clear precedent, an expert explains
by ELIAS ISQUITH
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/22/the_t...
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The Original Tea Partiers: How GOP Insurgents Invented Progressivism
Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette and his supporters pioneered long-shot primary challenges, strong ideology, and populist rhetoric a century ago.
Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/a...
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The GOP’s Last Identity Crisis Remade U.S. Politics
In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Unreasonable Men,’ Michael Wolraich shows how a century ago it was progressives who splintered the GOP.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles...
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Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
From 1904-1912, the American political system underwent enormous growing pains, and political writer Wolraich (Blowing Smoke) gives this decade an exhaustive, detailed examination, from the first “creeping sense” of a new political body into a “war with only two sides” that birthed America’s enduring bipartisan identities.
He chronicles the mobilization of a group behind a unified ideology and the book’s massive cast provides the means to deliver a character-driven historical narrative. It a story of change, with larger societal shifts traced back to individual transformations, embodied in Roosevelt’s initially pragmatic middle-ground political stance giving way to an embrace of a divisive progressivism that articulated a “historic conflict between privilege and democracy.”
The pressing issues of this first progressive era became ongoing touchstones for inter-party debate and lasting national concerns, including environmental conservation, overhaul of tariff systems, centralization of banking, modification of Congressional responsibilities, and the introduction of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments.
Wolraich probes this historic moment in light of an American political reawakening to the idea of the interests of the citizens as separate from, and potentially victim to, the interests of corporations and capital holders; it is a mighty and relevant insight into the cyclical nature of history.
Source: Publisher's Weekly
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Book Review: Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels who Created Progressive Politics by Michael Wolraich
Michael Wolraich deserves praise for this lively and passionate account of the power struggle that created the progressive movement and defined modern American politics, finds Michail Zontos.
Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels who Created Progressive Politics. Michael Wolraich. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.
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It was not uncommon during the Progressive Era of the United States (1890-1920) to find political journalists who immersed themselves into the study of history in order to find solutions for their present-day social and political problems. As they tried to alleviate social ills, caused by unregulated markets, inequality, excessive wealth and corruption, many of these reformers searched their nation’s past for answers. Herbert Croly, for example, in his influential The Promise of American Life (1909), ventured forth into studying the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton over the role of government in a popular democracy in order to discover how the United States could cope with the challenges of the twentieth century.
Michael Wolraich, a prolific political journalist, finds himself here in a similar position. He emphasizes that the grassroots politics of the Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movements present similarities with the ways in which the Progressive movement functioned more than a century ago. At the same time, he finds that the Occupy movement’s rhetoric is almost identical to the Progressive language of reform. As a result, he makes a compelling argument on the everlasting relevance of the Progressive Era: “By returning to the moment when America broke into two ideological factions,” he writes, “we can see more clearly what we’re fighting about and better appreciate the stakes.”
Wolraich’s account focuses on the rise, within the ranks of the Republican Party, of a small band of Progressive insurgents. They passionately fought against laisse-faire orthodoxy, sought to regulate concentration of wealth by supporting trust busting and promoted political innovations such as direct elections, ballot initiatives, judicial recalls and women’s suffrage. Initially, these rebels, who gathered around the uncompromised leadership of Wisconsin’s senator Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, were labelled as dangerous radicals by the establishment. At the same time, they enjoyed popular support from a public troubled with the transformations that massive industrialization had brought upon the once celebrated Jeffersonian republic of yeomen farmers and formed an alliance with muckraking journalists devoted to battle corruption. Their ideas also found receptive ears within the ranks of the Democratic Party which had experienced its own reform movement under William Jennings Bryan’s populism.
In the end, their crusade caused a long-standing realignment in American politics. The old division between North and South was replaced by an ideological division between conservatives and progressives. This realignment led to the split of the Republican Party, which saw its former leader and ex-president, Theodore Roosevelt, running again for the presidency as the leader of a third party, the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, in the elections of 1912. In fact, these elections verified the pervasiveness of Progressivism: Both Roosevelt’s new founded party and the Democratic Party, under Woodrow Wilson, entered the arena with a progressive platform while the conservatives, gathered around the Republican president William Taft, had also adopted parts of the reform agenda: Taft himself was an active trust-buster during his presidency. The result of the elections saw a Democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, implementing many of the reforms that the Republican rebels had passionately fought for.
Wolraich brilliantly recounts the transformation of Roosevelt from a moderate reformer president to a radical progressive agitator and the conflicts between the Progressives, gathered around La Follette, and the conservatives in Congress. Impressive figures of a long gone America come back to life: Joseph Cannon, the imperial Speaker of the House of Representatives, chewing his cigar while battling the reformers who tried to strip him of his excessive powers, conservative senator Nelson Aldrich, who became the unexpected father of the Federal Reserve and Robert La Follette, the definite hero of the book, fighting stubbornly against an initially hostile political environment in order to implement his innovative ideas.
Of course, this crucial period of American history has been extensively studied before. Readers who wish to read a rigid scholarly account of the era have to go back to the work of historians such as Lewis L. Gould, Sidney M. Milkis, Richard Hofstadter and Robert Wiebe. In this respect, academic experts may argue that the vast literature on Progressivism makes hard for Wolraich to break new ground with his study. Moreover, they could argue that some discussion on the populist movement that preceded Progressivism and on the latter’s influence on the New Deal would have placed Wolraich’s story in a wider context. Yet, this is not a rigidly academic work. The purposes of the author are different and he wishes for a broader audience. Judging on the basis of what he seeks to accomplish, the outcome is rather welcome.
Firstly, Unreasonable Men convincingly shows the relevance of the Progressive Era. Everyone interested in present day American politics has much to learn by returning to the times of Roosevelt and La Follette. President Obama’s efforts to promote healthcare and immigration reform can be seen as a continuation of this century old age of reform. Moreover, Wolraich’s account of Robert La Follette offers important lessons for modern politics. Especially his argument that “to build momentum, it is often necessary to lose in order to win,” Fighting Bob’s practice par excellence, may be helpful for many modern progressives who received with disappointment the results of the recent mid-term elections. Finally, Unreasonable Men should attract a broader audience than just American history enthusiasts. All those readers who made Thomas Piketty’s wonderful book on inequality a best seller will find the story of Progressivism fascinating. Many of the problems that Progressives fought against are still here and their nature is transnational. In this respect, Wolraich’s book is exceptionally modern and its message global.
Last but not least, Wolraich deserves praise for his writing. It is lively, passionate and cinematic in the way it presents the events that changed America –the book almost reads like a political thriller. One may wonder what a Spielberg, who transformed Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book on Lincoln into a wonderful film, could do with this material, which includes the same level of intrigue, passion and exuberant, larger-than-life personalities.
Michail Zontos holds a BA in International and European Studies (University of Piraeus), an MA in International Relations and Strategic Studies (Panteion University) and an MA in American Studies (Utrecht University). He is currently a PhD candidate at Utrecht University. His dissertation focuses on perceptions of Europe in the work of American historians Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles Austin Beard. He studied in the Netherlands as a scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece.
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a) Post your interest here on this thread FIRST and indicate that you agree to the T&C's which are quite basic and the same as we had for all previous books. You are agreeing to first read and discuss the book here, post your comments in the discussion, review the book and post on the Book as a Whole and Final Thoughts thread (your review is completely your own), and finally to post a question or two for our author - Michael Wolraich - on the Ask Michael thread - and this is it aside from enjoying your reading and discussion.
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These are the requirements to be considered to receive this FREE book.
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St. Martins's Press will send the book free to US addresses only and only to the recipients selected.
b) You must indicate to Bentley that you will read the book, discuss the book actively in each of the weekly threads and post your comments weekly, that you will write a review of the book and post it on the HBC on the Book as a Whole and Final Thoughts thread, and also participate and post a question or two for the author - Michael Wolraich who will be joining us.
c) If you received a previous book from us; we will review your standing on that book and see if you participated as agreed. We want to give everyone a chance - we really want active participation from folks we give the books to.
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Send Bentley your full name, full address and zip code - SECOND STEP
You must complete both to be considered. We have been promised between 35 to 50 books.
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In other words, that you would abide by the t's and c's.
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Betty I do not have your details yet. Update: Received
I would like to be considered for the free book Unreasonable Men by Michael Wolraich and I agree to the terms and conditions.
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I would like to be considered and abide be the Ts and Cs.
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Hello, I would be interesting in the book offer. I agree to the terms and conditions. I will message you with my information as well.
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I am interested in this book and I agree to the terms and conditions.I am interested in the social histoty of this period. I know that Roosevelt was concerned about the viability of the free enterprise system as it existed at the time. There were also those who were left of the progessives which caused Roosevelt to question the status quo.
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Hello ops20 - you have completed step one but step two is mailing via PM to Bentley your full name, full mailing address and zip code so that you can be considered for the free book offer. I send you a friend invite so that you could PM me easily and I could get the required step two information from you.
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Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics (other topics)Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies About the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior Into a Raging Homosexual (other topics)
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One of our relationships with St. Martin's Press which is part of the has allowed us to offer our group members who reside in the United States free copies of the following book:
Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
So for those of you who are interested in not only acquiring this book at no charge along with free shipping paid for by St. Martin's Press, please post on the Introduction thread and let me know of your interest. Also, send me via PM your name and mailing address so that I can place you on the list so that you can get your advance copy. I will release the list of the lucky recipients who are committed to reading and discussing this fine book with us and the author and doing a review of the book itself. You must post that you will follow the t's and c's on the Introduction thread for the book to be considered and send me a PM with your full name and mailing address.
We are being allowed 35 - 50 copies and they are only going to be available to History Book Club members from the United States who will also commit to reading the book, discussing it with us and the author as well as writing a review. If you do not plan on doing the above, let somebody else get a chance of a free copy of this great book. Also if you have not even introduced yourself to the group - I must say that that is the very first step in the process - here is the url for that:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This is a great opportunity so we hope you take advantage of this and let me know of your interest.
Also send me a PM or post here if you are unable to reach me for any reason and I will contact you and tell you my History Book Club email address.
All Best,
Bentley
This is the link to the introduction thread for the spotlighted book - Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics by Michael Wolraich
The History Book Club will have a special spotlighted discussion of this book - start dates to follow.
Michael Wolraich will be here to discuss his book and he wants to be an extremely interactive author with the group.
We will be setting up a thread called Ask Michael.
Author: Michael Woraich
The National Memo - excerpt from book
http://www.nationalmemo.com/weekend-r...
Source: The National Memo