David Sarasohn
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David Sarasohn has been making fun of politicians for the Oregonian since 1983. In 2008, Sarasohn was a finalist in commentary in the American Society of Newspaper Editors contest, and his work is included in Best Newspaper Writing, 2008-2009. His columns have twice won first-place awards in the visa mer Best of the West contest, and he won the 2002 Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writers. He has written two books, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Harper's and the Nation. visa färre
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The main figure behind the party's focus on these reforms, Sarasohn argues, was William Jennings Bryan. Though thrice defeated in his bids for the presidency, as the dominant force in Democratic party politics during this period Bryan was able to commit the national party to a range of antitrust measures and social reforms. Such support, he posits, was essential to the passage of Theodore Roosevelt's legislative agenda and promoted William Howard Taft to pursue a vigorous antitrust effort as president. It was this support that made the Democrats the beneficiaries of the Progressive surge in the 1912 election, which Sarasohn asserts would have been won by Woodrow Wilson even without the Republican Party's split that year. Sarasohn goes on to credit the Democratic majorities in Congress with many of the major Progressive achievements of Wilson's first term in office, even going so far as to claim that the president's successful reelection in 1916 was more the consequence of this effort than the Wilson's own achievements.
Sarasohn's book is a provocative challenge to much of the traditional historical interpretation of politics during the Progressive Era. While some of his arguments are less well supported than others, they force the reader to reconsider the motive forces behind reform on the national political scene. Nobody interested in the Progressive movement, or in the politics of the period, can afford to pass on reading this lively and challenging study, which sheds light on some often overlooked political dynamics of the era.… (mer)