A Bias for Action
His critics will probably say that once again Barack Obama has failed to exercise the kind of leadership that goes along with occupying...
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A Bias for Action
His critics will probably say that once again Barack Obama has failed to exercise the kind of leadership that goes along with occupying...
Not the Party of Lincoln
Lincoln’s Social and Economic Policy In one year of his presidency, 1862, Lincoln signed four nation changing acts. One was the Homestead...
Not the Party of Lincoln
Lincoln’s Social and Economic Policy In one year of his presidency, 1862, Lincoln signed four nation changing acts. One was the Homestead...
Isn’t It Rich
Al Gore, the former vice president who but for the vote of one Supreme Court Justice would have captured the American presidency in 2000,...
It’s the Money, Stupid
On the presidential campaign trail in 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain regularly invoked Theodore Roosevelt as his role model. “I count...
Bigness
On the downhill side of the Gilded Age in American political and business life – that would have been in the late 1800’s – progressive...
A New Gilded Age
If Mitt Romney wins the Florida primary Tuesday, as now seems likely, the media scrum following his every move will no doubt credit his...
Colonel Roosevelt
We have become accustom to former presidents writing their memoirs, establishing the presidential library and undertaking a good cause...
To Be Thankful
Looking for something to be thankful for this holiday season? Lift a glass to the memory of the 26th President of the United States. He...
Teddy…a Socialist?
Apparently in the supercharged environment of today’s American politics the worst thing that can be said of someone is that they are…a...
How the West Was Saved
Douglas Brinkley’s fine new book – The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America – tells the great story of how...