The 2024 nominating conventions are now part of American political history. My recent book, Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Presidential Nominating Conventions from 1904 to 1944, was published a few months before the conventions and was well-received. Kirkus Reviews called it “a fascinating portrait of the time” and a “thought-provoking look at the mechanics of American politics.” I had the honor of speaking about the book at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum in Staunton, Virginia, before the Friends of Sagamore Hill (Theodore Roosevelt’s historic home) in Oyster Bay, New York, and at several other venues.

Roosevelt to Roosevelt is my third book on the history of presidential nominating conventions. The four decades from 1904 to 1944 were perhaps the most crucial ones for the United States during the twentieth century. The era began with one Roosevelt, Theodore, in the White House, and ended with another, Franklin, residing there.

Then, unlike today, conventions mattered. Their outcomes altered history. How did the victors at conventions prevail, and why were the losers defeated? Roosevelt to Roosevelt tells those intriguing stories.

My two prior books on the history of American presidential nominating conventions, The First American Political Conventions and President-Making in the Gilded Age, chronicled the conventions held during the nineteenth century. The New Yorker has called me “the most exhaustive chronicler of the conventions.” I have spoken about the books at several presidential sites and have been interviewed about them by major media outlets.

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