Volume 51, Number 14 · September 23, 2004
Where It Began
By Ronald Steel
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs—The Election That Changed the Country
by James Chace
Simon and Schuster, 323 pp., $25.95
Imagine that John McCain challenges George W. Bush in the primaries for the Republican presidential nomination—and on being defeated by the Old Guard bosses launches his own political party. On the campaign trail he electrifies his followers by declaring that the federal government is 'the steward of public welfare' and—in a deliberate slap to the big-money interests dominating the Republican Party—that 'labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.'
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