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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPart 3 of "The Roosevelts" will blow you away
The reasons Teddy ran as the "Progressive" candidate was because his own party (Republicans) wouldn't allow him to be the nominee. Listen to his diatribes claiming that the monied interests have taken over both parties and that no one was on the side of the working class. The similarities to our own times are chilling.
PBS has all 7 parts of "The Roosevelts" on their website as of this evening.
http://video.pbs.org/
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)Such as the more things change, the more they are the same - or at least, things we see now are not really new (or something like that!)
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Especially between the corporations then and now. Also the fact that those corporations used the same methods of control over out country. Buy themselves a political party. This is the best series I have ever seen on PBS. We need to see this today.
Edited to ask if anyone knows what they are asking for the video - how much does it cost?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I stayed with one of his committee staffers and was taken to the FDR Memorial by someone who ran a Kerry website. I suspect there was a method to their madness. After that campaign, I couldn't help tearing up seeing the FDR quotes engraved there...
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Tells you something.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Taft was a waste of a president after TR.
A good accompaniment to this series is "The Bully Pulpit," by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Shows how both TR and muckraking journalism had a profound effect on the age.
I was thinking the same thing about it being a good accompaniment to The Bully Pulpit. I've been trying to read through it slowly.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)There are just so many parallels between then and now that I think it's worth a slower, closer read.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I'm so busy it's killing me. I commute 62 miles round trip five days a week, have class prep, and am working on a dissertation. Only 13 more weeks until vacation!
Ah, then I have to start finally learning Korean.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Is that all of the series or is there more to come?
I'm in the middle of reading The Bully Pulpit, which is a very long book. So that fits in well with the videos you posted a link to.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)They are set to expire on 9/28/14. You're the second to mention "The Bully Pulpit." Sounds like something I need to add to my ever-increasing reading list.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)You mean they won't be online?
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)At least from PBS. They might offer it a few years down the road for free but unless you tape it now, you'll have to buy the series after it expires.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I just checked, I can't get it where I am. I'll torrent it.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Amazon is Cheaper but with PBS the extra goes to support their programming, I guess.
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a kennedy
(29,699 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)as did FDR several years later. THAT is what we need today, someone who will LEAD the party instead of the party leading the candidate.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)past that, they explained clearly because of his father why he was that way. He ended up fighting for the working class, something republicans now days would be unheard of doing.
It's an amazing mini series, can't wait for episode 3.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)But his entire domestic agenda was so unlike the GOP of today.
Unlike GOP of today he wanted members of his family to fight.Today's GOP want war but don't want their sons or grandsons fighting.He
even encourged Elanor that FDR should enlist while he was assistant secretary of the Navy.
Teddy was real maverick not mccain.He fought the party bosses and they picked him to be VP to get him out of governor's office.