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Let the People Rule

Let the People Rule

Released Wednesday, 25th May 2016
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Let the People Rule

Let the People Rule

Let the People Rule

Let the People Rule

Wednesday, 25th May 2016
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Geoffrey Cowan, president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, discusses his book "Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary". Using a trove of newly discovered documents, Cowan offers a glimpse at the raucous and often mean-spirited political machinations of the 1912 campaign, which changed American politics forever by creating the system of primaries by which presidential nominees are selected today.

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