Subtitled: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

The gap between rich and poor has never been wider.....legislative stalemate paralyzes the country......corporations resist federal regulations....spectacular mergers produce giant companies.....the influence of money in politics deepens......bombs explode in crowded streets....small wars proliferate far from our shores....a dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life.

The story is told through the intense friendship of Roosevelt and Taft - a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, changing the course of the country's history.