Bull Moose on the Stump: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt

As standard bearer of the Progressive Party in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt played to enthusiastic crowds wherever he traveled. When he was targeted by an assassin while campaigning for president, a bullet passed through the speech in his breast pocket-pages that he then held aloft while assuring the crowd “It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose . . . and you cannot escape listening to this speech!”

This first full edition of his campaign speeches takes readers on the stump from New Englan...