{"product_id":"theodore-roosevelt-and-the-american-political-tradition-american-political-thought-9780700619689","title":"Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (American Political Thought)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRough Rider  hunter  trust-buster  president  and Bull Moose candidate. Biographers have long fastened on TR as man of action  while largely ignoring his political thought. Now  in time for the centennial of his Progressive run for the presidency  Jean Yarbrough provides a searching examination of TRs political thought  especially in relation to the ideas of Washington  Hamilton  and Lincolnthe statesmen TR claimed most to admire.  Yarbrough sets out not only to explore Roosevelts vision for America but also to consider what his political ideas have meant for republican self-government. She praises TR for his fighting spirit  his love of country  and efforts to promote republican greatness  but faults him for departing from the political principles of the more nationalistic Founders he esteemed. With the benefit of hindsight  she argues that the progressive policies he came to embrace have over time undermined the very qualities Roosevelt regarded as essential to civic life. In particular  the social welfare policies he championed have eroded industry and self-reliance; the expansion of the regulatory state has multiplied the special interests seeking access to political power; and the bureaucratic experts in whom he reposed such confidence have all too often turned out to be neither disinterested nor effective.  Yarbrough argues that TRs early historical studiesinspired by Darwinian biology and Hegelian political thoughttreated westward expansion from an evolutionary and developmental perspective that placed race and conquest at the center of the narrative  while relegating individual rights and consent of the governed to the sidelines.  Although his early career showed him to be a moderate Republican reformer  Yarbrough argues that even then he did not share Hamiltons enthusiasm for the commercial republic  and substituted an appeal to \"abstract duty\" for The Federalists reliance on self-interest. As New York governor and first-term president  TR attempted to strike a \"just balance\" between democratic and oligarchic interests  but by the end of his presidency he had tipped the balance in favor of progressive policies. From the New Nationalism until his death in 1919  Roosevelt continued to claim the mantle of Washington and Lincoln  even as he moved further from their political principles.  Through careful examination of TRs political thought  Yarbroughs book sheds new light on his place in the American political tradition  while enhancing our understanding of the roots of progressivism and its transformation of the founders Constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646919270453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0700619682","price":26.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700619689.jpg?v=1781681800","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/theodore-roosevelt-and-the-american-political-tradition-american-political-thought-9780700619689","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}