Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916

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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Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916

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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Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916

Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916

Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916

Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780700631056
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 08/09/1974
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 332
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Robert Sherman La Forte was professor of history at the University of North Texas, where he taught for thirty years. In addition to this book, he coauthored three books on World War II history and the authorized history of the University of North Texas.

Charles Delgadillo is lecturer in history at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and Norco College, in California. He is the author of Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White.

Table of Contents

Kansas Open Books Foreword, Charles Delgadillo

Acknowledgments

1. Prologue: The Progressive Republicans of Kansas

2. Factional Beginnings: Of Boss-Busters and Political Machines, 1900-1903

3. Transitional Factionalism: The Kansas Republican League and Reform, 1904-1906

4. Growing Dissidence: Mainly Railroads, 1906

5. From Civic Leaguers to Square Dealers: Kansas Politics, 1906-1908

6. Bristow and the Birth of the Progressive Republican Faction, 1908

7. the State and governor Stubbs, 1909-1911

8. Taft and the Kansas Insurgents, 1909-1910

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

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