Jean Yarbrough

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Jean M. Yarbrough is a professor of government and the Gary M. Pendy Sr. professor of social sciences at Bowdoin College. She is the author of “Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition” (University of Kansas Press, 2012), which won the 2013 Richard E. Neustadt Prize for best book on the presidency.

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  • Theodore Roosevelt and the Pursuit of American Greatness

    Jean Yarbrough
    Today marks the 115th anniversary of the swearing-in of Theodore Roosevelt, who would turn out to be our first progressive president. Roosevelt was thrust suddenly into that high office after the assassination of President William McKinley on Sept. 14, 1901. On that somber September day, it was not yet clear what shape TR’s political trajectory…
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