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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about new book 'The Bully Pulpit'
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Nov 6, 2013
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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about new book 'The Bully Pulpit'
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has written her sixth book, which looks at how President Teddy Roosevelt shaped the bully pulpit.

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has written her sixth book, which looks at how President Teddy Roosevelt shaped the bully pulpit.

Theodore Roosevelt was famous for manipulating the media to get what he wanted but also gave them unprecedented access to the internal machinations of government.

How are things different under President Obama?

Pulitzer-prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin joins Take Two to talk about the Progressive Era and her sixth book, "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism."