Wednesday, November 24, 2010

"Bull Moose in Twilight"

Kathleen Dalton reviews Edmund Morris's Colonel Roosevelt.

The debate is whether TR was a true progressive or in the heart a reactionary aristocrat. What is missing in the review is an acknowledgement that Progressivism was an upper-crust movement that could not separate itself from its anti-democratic, anti-populist, and paternalistic tendencies.

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