The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - the recent biography of Teddy Roosevelt from the bestselling writer of Team of Rivals, the muse for Spielberg's Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer of the acclaimed multi-million replica bestseller Team of opponents: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, now turns to the beginning of America's innovative period - that heady, confident time whilst the 20 th Century is clean. Reform is within the air, and it's time to tackle the robber barons and corrupt politicians who've introduced the rustic to its knees.

The tale is advised during the shut friendship among Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt and his handpicked successor William Howard Taft. The decades-long intimacy strengthens either males as they reform the United States, breaking apart monopolies, conserving the rights of labour, banning dangerous medications and shutting sweatshops.

Also on the center of the tale are the unique 'muckrakers' - a super workforce of investigative newshounds on the celebrated journal McClure's. They post renowned exposes of fraudulent railroads and millionaire senators, supporting Roosevelt in his quest for switch and fairness.

As Roosevelt, Taft and the muckrakers confront corruption and reveal exploitation, the USA is reborn.

This e-book is key interpreting for lovers of yank background, and may be loved through readers of Jon Snow, Jeremy Paxman and Robert Harris.

'(Praise for Team of Rivals:) a superb e-book ... a outstanding examine in management' Barack Obama

'The such a lot uplifting ebook that i've got learn within the final twenty years. Sensational' Jon Snow

'I haven't loved a background booklet as a lot for years' Robert Harris, The Observer (Books of the Year)

'A fabulously engrossing, intriguing narrative within the grand old school ... overflowing with color and personality' Dominic Sandbrook

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the doyenne people presidential historians. She gained the Pulitzer Prize in background in 1995 for No traditional Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the house entrance in global warfare II. She can also be the writer of the bestsellers Team of competitors, Wait until eventually subsequent 12 months, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the yankee Dream. She lives in harmony, Massachusetts, and together with her husband, Richard Goodwin.