More details, shipmate.
I’ve been reading the biographies of T. Roosevelt. He ain’t no socialist though he was a populist, and not at all popular with those elitists who wanted another National Bank.
He tangled with the Vanderbilts, the Goulds, the Rockefellers, J.P.Morgan, and other Robber Barons who felt they had the sole right of choosing who was to be President.
Gee! Sounds like the GOPe today.
I saw a new TR bio in the bookstore at lunch. It was written by Doris Kearns Goodwin with an eye toward TR’s populism, in conjunction with the journalist “muckrakers” that were in concert with him about the elitists. Think I’ll pass on this one, personally, but thought you might like to know.