
- 332 pages
- English
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About this book
In Leaders of Reform Robert Sherman La Forte examines the intricacies of shifting factions within the state majority party over a two decade period, from the Boss-Busters and political machines of the early 1900s through the formation of a new party behind Theodore Roosevelt in 1913. He discusses the motives, activities, accomplishments, and failures of the progressive Republicans. He provides excellent vignettes of major leaders such as William Allen White, Arthur Capper, Joseph L. Bristow, and Charles Curtis, as well as lesser-known characters such as Walter Roscoe Stubbs, Edward H. Hoch, and Cy Leland, Jr.
In providing a detailed analysis of virtually all Kansas progressive Republican leaders during the era, La Forte has made a valuable contribution to both state and national political history.
Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Kansas Open Books Foreword, Charles Delgadillo
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Prologue: The Progressive Republicans of Kansas
- 2 Factional Beginnings: Of Boss-Busters and Political Machines, 1900โ1903
- 3 Transitional Factionalism: The Kansas Republican League and Reform, 1904โ1906
- 4 Growing Dissidence: Mainly Railroads, 1906
- 5 From Civic Leaguers to Square Dealers: Kansas Politics, 1906โ1908
- 6 Bristow and the Birth of the Progressive Republican Faction, 1908
- 7 The State and Governor Stubbs, 1909โ1911
- 8 Taft and the Kansas Insurgents, 1909โ1910
- 9 The Republican Primary of 1910 and Its Aftermath
- 10 With Roosevelt to Armageddon, 1912
- 11 A New Party, a Parting of Old Friends, 1913
- 12 The Year They Really Stood at Armageddon, 1914
- 13 Epilogue: How Things Can End
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover