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Title: 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs--The Election That Changed the Country by James Chace ISBN: 0-7432-0394-1 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Appealing book, lackluster writing
Comment: James Chace's new book, "1912" recounts one of the more curious elections in our nation's history...one that saw four men vie for the electorate's vote. Although not much new is offered it is a political trip down memory lane as Chace delves into the personalities and issues of the campaign.
For those of us who have been students of presidential elections we often look at the election of 1912 as a race between three men, not four. As Eugene Victor Debs had a much lower popular vote total than the other three and won no electoral votes he is often relegated to the sidelines in this election. Chace is at his best not only by including Debs in the mix but by his descriptions of Debs and how the Socialist candidate managed to run a respectable campaign against a former president, a current president and a president to be.
Unfortunately, the author's writing, though straightforward and historically accurate, is often wooden. The more exciting aspects of the year (notably the nominations) never really come to life. The book also suffers from over-hype... while it was a fascinating election year, to say that the outcome sent the Republicans into "a conservative ascendancy that reached its fullness with Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush" (from the back flap of the dust cover) is a bit of a stretch. 1912 was an important election year but not a turning point as seems to be suggested.
Chace rightly focuses on the two main players, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and leaves William Howard Taft somewhere in the dust. (which is fairly close to how the electoral vote turned out, at least for Taft) "1912" is a solid book but one that could have been spiced up a little with better writing.
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Title: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ISBN: 1594200092 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 26 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer ISBN: 0195170342 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914 by David Fromkin ISBN: 0375411569 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black ISBN: 1586481843 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America by Eric Rauchway ISBN: 0809071703 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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