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Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt’s return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates.
When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a radical reformer on the Bull Moose ticket. Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson, the ex-president of Princeton, astonished everyone by seizing the Democratic nomination from the bosses who had made him New Jersey’s governor. Most revealing of the reformist spirit sweeping the land was the charismatic socialist Eugene Debs, who polled an unprecedented one million votes.
Wilson’s “accidental” election had lasting impact on America and the world. The broken friendship between Taft and TR inflicted wounds on the Republican Party that have never healed, and the party passed into the hands of a conservative ascendancy that reached its fullness under Reagan and George W. Bush. Wilson’s victory imbued the Democratic Party with a progressive idealism later incarnated in FDR, Truman, and LBJ.
1912 changed America.
- Sales Rank: #291061 in Books
- Model: 1667528
- Published on: 2005-08-01
- Released on: 2005-08-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x .90" w x 6.12" l, .88 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Some histories interpret new evidence and add to our store of knowledge. Some, relying on others' research, simply tell a known story. Chace's work is the best of the latter kind: a lively, balanced and accurate retelling of an important moment in American history. Even though the 1912 election wasn't the election that changed the country (there have been several), it was a critical one. It gave us Woodrow Wilson, though only by a plurality of the popular vote (albeit a huge electoral majority) and so gave us U.S. intervention in WWI and Wilsonian internationalism. Because of former president Theodore Roosevelt's rousing candidacy as nominee of the short-lived Bull Moose, or Progressive, Party, the campaign deepened the public's acceptance of the idea of a more modern and activist presidency. Because Eugene Debs, the great Socialist, gained more votes for that party (6% of the total) than ever before or since, the election marked American socialism's political peak. What of the ousted incumbent, William Howard Taft? Chace (Acheson, etc.) succeeds in making him a believable, sympathetic character, if a lackluster chief executive. What made the 1912 campaign unusual was that candidates of four, not just two, parties vied for the presidency. The race was also marked by a basic decency, honesty and quality of debate not often seen again. Chace brings sharply alive the distinctive characters in his fast-paced story. There won't soon be a better-told tale of one of the last century's major elections.
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From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–According to Chace, the election of 1912 was "a defining moment in American history." When Theodore Roosevelt's choice for successor, William Howard Taft, failed to support his reforms, Roosevelt left the GOP convention to run against Taft on the Bull Moose Progressive ticket. This bitter split in the Republican party was ultimately responsible for Woodrow Wilson's unexpected victory. A fourth candidate, Eugene V. Debs, an experienced and influential orator who was later imprisoned for espionage, ran as a Socialist representing labor. Chace makes this election come alive through careful research and clear writing. Describing the primaries, the personalities, the conventions, the campaigns, the issues, the race, and the aftermath, the book often reads like a suspense novel. Readers will be able to make valid comparisons between the 2004 presidential race and the 1912 election. Illustrations include good-quality, black-and-white photos of the candidates, their wives, and their families; several political cartoons; and a campaign poster of Debs. This is a valuable resource for those interested in the American electoral process and for American history and government students.–Pat Bender, The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA
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From Booklist
The extraordinary presidential election of 1912 featured four serious candidates: the incumbent William Howard Taft, a Republican; former president Theodore Roosevelt, who bolted the Republican Party and ran as the Bull Moose candidate; Woodrow Wilson, Democrat governor of New Jersey; and the Socialist candidate, Eugene Debs. Professor Chace asserts that the election was a defining moment in American political history. The Republican rejection of Roosevelt and his progressive policies placed power in the hands of conservatives and their big-business backers; Chace draws a direct line from them to the triumph of Reagan-style conservatism. Wilson's triumph committed the Democratic Party to an activist central government, nudged in that direction by the surprisingly strong showing of Debs. Chace's links between that election and present political stands are debatable, but his portrayals of the four players are fascinating. This is a valuable look at how and why our current political culture has evolved. Jay Freeman
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
The Rise of Wilson and the Fall of Roosevelt.
By Kevin M Quigg
Chace does a good job of detailing why the election of 1912 was so important to the United States. He describes the four participants in the election of 1912: Wilson, Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs. Bryan was also a factor in the Democratic nomination of Wilson. The main focus of this book is how these leaders would affect change in America. Taft was the conservative and Debs was the radical. Roosevelt and Wilson were the candidates for the Progressive faction of the country. Chace describes each candidate and all his positives and negatives. I didn't know Wilson was such a reactionary on race and immigrant relations, while Roosevelt was generally very liberal on these issues. All in all a good book about the campaign and why the Republican Party veered to the right.
For those interested in the politics of America, this is a good read. The reader would be surprised to find that the red and blue states have actually changed over the years. In the past, the South was reactionary and the West was Progressive while the East and Midwest favored the conservative (Republican) issues. Not so today. Hats off to Chace for writing a good read.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
If Teddy and Bill Had Stayed Friends
By Thomas J. Burns
Despite the apocalyptic title, the fact is that for all of the candidates for the presidency the nominations and subsequent campaign of 1912 could not come fast enough. For everything claimed about the 1912 election being a benchmark of later twentieth century electoral trends, the candidates themselves were men running on empty or close to it. Where the four candidates themselves [three, realistically, at any rate] were concerned, the prize of the White House was a reprieve from decline, oblivion, or in Debs' case, jail.
One can argue whether Eugene Debs deserves the attention he commands in this work. On election day he tallied about what one would expect from the least known candidate in a four man race, and there is no reading of the results that suggests Debs' share of the vote seriously affected the outcome. But the Socialist candidate is a charming fellow in his own way, an Adlai Stevenson in coveralls or a cheap suit, and James Chace gives him extended exposure to a current generation that has forgotten the struggles of American Labor.
Debs was a combination of things: laborer, philosopher, public office holder, labor leader, and perennial presidential candidate. The 1912 election would be his fourth run for the White House, though even Debs realized that his presidential campaigns were more about exposure on the bully pulpit than the prize itself. Chace provides a biography that briefly chronicles not just the colorful career of Debs but a thumbnail sketch of the labor-management problems coming to a boil in mainstream electoral politics.
Unfortunately for Debs in 1912, the issue of populism was now becoming semi-respectable, and others with more name recognition were willing to take the banner that Debs had manfully carried alone in past elections. Robert LaFollette appeared to be the front-runner until a physical and mental breakdown led reform-minded Republican governors in the West to coax, if that be the right word, Theodore Roosevelt out of retirement. If the reader winces at the juxtaposition of "coax" and "Roosevelt," that is probably understandable. Yet Roosevelt's third party candidacy was not an inevitability.
The popular wisdom has held that Roosevelt was literally panting to get back into the limelight, that four years of retirement had been a torment. This is only partly true. Roosevelt, for all his faults, was no fool. He knew he would be running against an incumbent of his own party, albeit a weak one, a crossing of the Rubicon if ever there was one. Unfortunately for Roosevelt, this was also an incumbent he had hand picked and groomed, a man once seen by Roosevelt as something of a younger brother. The rupture of Roosevelt's relationship with William Howard Taft was tragic, public, and unbearably cruel, and its impact was that of a two-edged sword in this campaign. Moreover, Roosevelt's sense of two-party order was strong; his positioning as a potential third-party reformer would put him in close proximity with people and causes he considered dangerously close to anarchy.
But still he ran for president, in part to tackle the trusts and other reform causes he had espoused in the White House and which he accused Taft of ignoring. For all his popularity Roosevelt had never won over the Republican Party machinery, which of course defeated him at the Chicago nominating convention. Such things happen in politics, but rules committee chicanery would be taken very personally by Roosevelt, who in his momentary disgust uncharacteristically took up a third party progressive banner. Naturally, his rage became all the more personified against Taft and brought out the worst in the Rough Rider's last presidential campaign.
The great mystery not unraveled in this study is why Taft felt compelled to run for reelection at all. By all accounts he was an unhappy president, possibly best remembered for his weight problem. He was self-effacing and rather atypical for a politician. It is not at all certain that Roosevelt's philosophy unduly concerned him. In fact, Taft's own trust-busting cost him much support within his own party. One can imagine him declining to run in 1912 and returning to the practice of law. All things considered, personal liabilities and the like, his might have been the most respectable third place finish in the history of presidential elections, though one wonders why he went to all the trouble.
Woodrow Wilson may have been a fresh face in the presidential arena, but in fact he had barely survived two major political upheavals, mostly of his own making, in smaller arenas prior to the campaign of 1912. As President of Princeton University his radical reform of traditional campus life, not to mention his style of implementation, made a run for the New Jersey state house a graceful escape. His tenure as chief executive of the Garden State was a stormy one; attacks on both sides-from machine Democrats and Republicans alike-brought out the intractability of the former college professor. From a distance, however, Wilson was a refreshing new reform face, particularly when the national Democratic Convention bogged down to a slugfest between career politicians long in the tooth. Wilson, who could be as priestly as the pope when the occasion arose, was the one contender who could wear William Jennings Bryan's vestments of reform and progressivism in a manner that Democratic pols did not mind going to church.
How much the election of 1912 changed the country is still an open question. In truth, the more pertinent question is how this election impacted World War I. Only Roosevelt, of the four candidates, seemed to have an inkling of a possible world war, though even his admiring biographers have reservations about Roosevelt as a wartime president. What can be safely said is this: a united Republican Party, i.e., with both Roosevelt and the bosses under the tent, would have probably defeated Wilson. The reader can make of that as he wishes.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
This book does not focus on the election - more the people
By Eric Hobart
"1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs - the election that changed the country". That is the title given to this book, but the title certainly is not reflective of the substance of the work.
The book does center around the political contest known as the Presidential Election of 1912, but it veers off on many tangents that are unrelated to the contest. It is true that there were four major candidates for President that year, and all of them had a story to tell, but this book does not cover that story as well as it should.
The book spends entirely too much time discussing the history of the candidates for President - in fact almost 1/2 of the book is devoted to biographical sketches of these four men.
The most exciting (and relevant) section of the book details the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore in 1912 -Chace does a great job of relaying the exuberance felt by the attendees of the convention, and gets the reader very excited about this important moment in American Political History when Woodrow Wilson, soon to be elected the 28th President of the United States, was selected as the standard bearer for the Democratic Party. To a much lesser scale, and not quite as well, Chace describes the Republican, Progressive, and Socialist conventions which led to the nomination of William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene V. Debs respectively.
The election gets almost no attention at all in this book, but the Wilson administration does get a significant amount of attention, as does the legacy of Wilson and the impact of both Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt on a future President's administration - that of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
All told, I cannot recommend this book to anyone that is looking for a comprehensive story of the 1912 Presidential Election. However, if one is looking for brief (very brief) biographical sketches of the candidates, this is a great book, with some very exciting highlights of an important political campaign thrown in.
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