Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Presidential Nominating Conventions from 1904 to 1944

1904 to 1944. 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.

In those years, as now, the candidates from whom Americans chose to be their president wer...