The book chronicles the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign to challenge his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican Party nomination. To overcome the power of the incumbent, Roosevelt seized on the idea of presidential primaries, telling bosses everywhere to “Let the people rule.”
Cowan, president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, and the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at the University of Southern California, is the best-selling author of “The People v. Clarence Darrow.”
A book signing will follow the program.
The moderator for the event was Jeffrey Herbst, CEO of the Newseum.
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