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Teddy Roosevelt's failed Bull Moose campaign may portend the future of the GOP and Donald Trump

  • Written by Jerald Podair, Professor of History, Lawrence University
imageA bold and brash Teddy Roosevelt during a visit to the Badlands in 1885. MPI/Getty Images

What happens when a former president decides he wants his old job back, regardless of what stands in his way?

As Donald Trump launches his third run for the White House, it is useful to look back at another ex-president, Theodore Roosevelt, whose campaign to...

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