5/8: 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza (Author)
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/1920-Year-Presidents-David-Pietrusza/dp/0786721022
The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation's history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was an election that saw unprecedented levels of publicity -- the Republicans outspent the Democrats by 4 to 1 -- and it was the first to garner extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage. It was also the first election in which women could vote. Meanwhile, the 1920 census showed that America had become an urban nation -- automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit were transforming the economy and America was limbering up for the most spectacular decade of its history, the roaring '20s. Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's riveting new work presents a dazzling panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots -- a picture of modern America at the crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:12.0 | Continuing with the historian and author David Petrucia, his new book |
| 0:17.3 | 1920, The Year of the Six Presidents. |
| 0:20.5 | Wilson is frail forever in the White House, so he has ambitions for a third term. |
| 0:27.0 | Teddy Roosevelt is gone in January of 2019. |
| 0:31.0 | Warren G. Harding has been nominated by the Republicans in Chicago earlier in the summer of |
| 0:37.6 | 1920. It is now July, early July, and the Democrats are meeting in San Francisco, |
| 0:46.0 | first time they've ever held a convention in on the West Coast. |
| 0:51.0 | The contest now is between the party regulars. They have favorites. One is |
| 1:00.1 | named Macadu, who is the son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson. |
| 1:03.6 | He married Woodrow Wilson's daughter. |
| 1:06.3 | He's a leading candidate. |
| 1:08.2 | And another candidate, a leading candidate, is the governor of Ohio, John Jimmy Cox. But we need to attend to the setup for the |
| 1:19.5 | nomination process which will take many ballots and the setup includes what do you what |
| 1:27.0 | do you do because you owe everything to where you been these last years with |
| 1:32.2 | Wilson he was the first Democrat to win the presidency |
| 1:38.0 | accepting Grover Cleveland, who was the governor of New York, as well in the 1880s and 1890s the first Democrat to win the |
| 1:46.0 | White House since the Civil War. So Wilson's achieved something for the |
| 1:50.4 | Democrats that no other candidate had been able to, to take the solid South and add |
| 1:56.1 | to it northern states enough to win the electoral college. |
| 1:59.2 | But Wilson is now seen as a negative to the campaign to the party because of one the League |
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