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Essay Archive - Woodrow Wilson and The Presidency
Woodrow Wilson and The Presidency
From the beginning of the 1912 election, the people could sense the new
ideas of Woodrow Wilson would move them in the right direction. Wilson's idea
of New Freedom would almost guarantee his presidential victory in 1912. In
contrast to Wilson's New Freedom, Roosevelt's New Nationalism called for the
continued consolidation of trusts and labor unions, paralleled by the growth of
powerful regulatory agencies. Roosevelt's ideas were founded in the Herbert
Croly's novel, The Promise Of American Lif....
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