The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt,

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt,

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt,

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Book overview

The Bully Pulpit is a masterful and deeply insightful study of presidents - freshly told through the decades-long and complicated friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. The book is the bestselling book by New York times.

A bully pulpit is a sufficiently conspicuous position that provides an opportunity to speak out and be listened to.

This term was coined by President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to the White House as a "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda. Roosevelt used the word bully as an adjective meaning "superb" or "wonderful", a more common usage in his time than it is today. Another expression which survives from this era is "bully for you", synonymous with "good for you".

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