“Cowan has brought to life a fascinating part of [Roosevelt’s] story usually left out of the history books. He tells it with verve and suspense, warts and all, his insights deepened by his own impressive background as a democracy activist.”

- Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars

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In Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary, award-winning author Geoffrey Cowan tells the story of Teddy Roosevelt’s tumultuous four-month campaign in 1912 for the presidency of the United States, and the country’s first-ever presidential primary. Cowan’s engaging historical narrative, which has garnered immediate critical acclaim, traces the roots of America’s modern political theater to the turn of the twentieth century.

Geoffrey Cowan is a Board Member of the Pacific Council and the President of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. He previously served as Dean and University Professor of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. In 1994, Cowan was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as the 22nd director of the Voice of America, the international broadcasting service of the U.S. Information Agency. In 1992, he won an Emmy as executive producer of the television movie Mark Twain & Me, which was voted Outstanding Prime Time Program for Children by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary will be available for purchase in January 2016.