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July 26, 2004 3:16 PM

The presidential campaign of 1912.Historian James Chace talks about the campaign, its spirit of progressive reform, and how the Taft-Roosevelt schism led to the GOP turning right.
posted by homunculus (11 comments total)

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posted by sgt.serenity at 4:05 PM on July 26, 2004

I bet you don't watch commercials on TV either. Can it.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 4:10 PM on July 26, 2004

what is this 'salon' thing anyway ?
I've never seen it before.
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posted by sgt.serenity at 4:53 PM on July 26, 2004

You do realize that you can read them if you just play the ad, right? No subscription or registration required.
posted by homunculus at 5:11 PM on July 26, 2004

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posted by bashos_frog at 6:41 PM on July 26, 2004

Yeah, all you have to do is watch an ad to read the text.

Not that it matters, I read this article a while ago and it was completly incomprehensible. So densly packed with tangential details it was imposible to find a naritive. It seemed like an intresting subject, but, since the bit on salon was an exceprt, we can assume the rest of the book is just as bad.
posted by delmoi at 6:42 PM on July 26, 2004

I have to agree with delmoi. I just read it and my reading comprehension skills don't totally suck, but I didn't walk away from that article with much.
posted by weston at 8:15 PM on July 26, 2004

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posted by sgt.serenity at 3:25 AM on July 27, 2004

*gives the sarge a penny*
posted by matteo at 9:24 AM on July 27, 2004

I like how a Salon link shows up on MeFi every week or so; it's like hearing a faint little heartbeat, each beat reminding me that they're not quite dead yet.
posted by boaz at 10:27 AM on July 27, 2004