"The Book Stops Here" Presidential Reading Group..."The Bully Pulpit" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

 In an era when cooperation between the national media and the US government seems laughable, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s timely 100-year look backward explores the origins of the type of muckraking journalism that helped make America a better country. Focusing on the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and his successor, William Howard Taft--one-time colleagues and friends who later became sworn foes--Goodwin chronicles the birth of an activist press, which occurred when five of the nation’s best-ever journalists converged at McClure’s magazine and helped usher in the Progressive era. At times slow and overly meticulous, with a lot of backstory and historical minutiae, this is nonetheless a lush, lively, and surprisingly urgent story--a series of entwined stories, actually, with headstrong and irascible characters who had me pining for journalism’s earlier days. It’s a big book that cries out for a weekend in a cabin, a book to get fully lost in, to hole up with and ignore the modern world, to experience the days when newsmen and women were our heroes.

Fees

This event is free to attend.

Location

Mid Continent Public Library, North Independence Branch. Independence, MO.

Schedule

Join us as we continue to explore the lives of American Presidents, in a reading group dedicated to the memory of President Harry S Truman.

Contact Information

Douglas J. Richardson
(816)254-4112
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• Partner Program