Roosevelt to Roosevelt

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>1904 to 1944.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Four decades that were perhaps the most crucial ones for the United States during the twentieth century. Two world wars and emergence as a global power. The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. The Progressive movement and the New Deal. Women's suffrage and Prohibition. The era began with one Roosevelt Theodore in the White House and ended with another Franklin residing there. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In those years as now the candidates from whom Americans chose to be their president were selected at the nominating conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties. Then unlike today conventions mattered. Their outcomes altered history. Nothing was inevitable. Without the twists turns and dealmaking at conventions there would have been no President Woodrow Wilson no rejection of a third term for President Theodore Roosevelt no President Warren Harding no Vice President Calvin Coolidge and no Vice President Harry Truman. How did the victors at conventions prevail and why were the losers defeated? This book tells those intriguing stories. </span></p><p><br></p>