5.0

I have been a Doris Kearns Goodwin fan for many years, beginning with her book about FDR and followed by Team of Rivals, so was predisposed to enjoy this newest history tale. Goodwin knows how to flow words and string stories that do not impede the very rich telling by the characters themselves. Her words simply help propel the characters lives along.

The Bully Pulpit shines light on the friendship of TR and Taft against the backdrop of the Republican Party, the Guilded Age, and the Muckrakers of writing. If you read this book sooner rather than later, you may be struck by the many similarities between their time and ours.

I am also keen on the history of this period, and besides Goodwin's books have also read Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris and a book about J.P. Morgan.