The New Freedom · Character
Mr. Roosevelt
The former president whose benevolent-sounding trust platform Wilson reads line by line, then dismantles as rhetoric that leaves corporate power exactly where it stands.
supporting
Also known as Theodore Roosevelt
First appearance: i the old order changeth
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Referenced indirectly in the context of conservation and monopoly; Wilson challenges the idea that those close to government (like Roosevelt's trust policy) can save the people…
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Roosevelt stands in this book as Wilson's most formidable rival for the direction of reform: a man whose platform promises uplift, publicity, and a commission to discipline the trusts, and whose personal magnetism makes…
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- III: Freemen Need No Guardians
- VIII: Monopoly, or Opportunity?
- IX: Benevolence, or Justice?
- XI: The Emancipation of Business
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