The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2008), 7:253-258 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2008
doi:10.1017/S1537781400001882

Review Essay

Writing Progressive Era History for Trade Publication


David Traxela1

a1 University of the Sciences, Philadelphia
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Eric Rauchway. Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. xiv + 250 pp. Preface, illustrations, notes, index. §25.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8090-7170-3; §14.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8090-1638-9.

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Kathleen Dalton. Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life. New York: Knopf, 2002. x + 708 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, index. §35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-679-44663-x; §17.00 (paper), ISBN 0-679-76733-9.

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Michael Kazin. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. New York: Knopf, 2006. xi + 374 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, index. §35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-375-41135-6; §16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-038-5720564.

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David Traxel is professor of history at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Recent books include Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898–1920 (Knopf, 2006), and 1898: The Birth of the American Century (Knopf, 1998).