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The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Bully Pulpit

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Roosevelt, Taft and the muckraking journalists of the Progressive Era: a friendship, a rupture and the birth of modern presidential communication. Long and absorbing.

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  1. Use the pulpit.
  2. Friendship and ambition collide.
  3. Journalism shapes reform.

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