How long does it take to read The Bully Pulpit?
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin takes about 16 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 41 minutes
A long haul
First published 2013. 910 pages, about 250,250 words.
34 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the country’s leading presidential historian, The Bully Pulpit is a masterful and deeply insightful study of presidents – freshly told through the decades-long and complicated friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Like with Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedys, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin meticulously and with great perception and compassion captures an epic moment in history, when in 1912, Roosevelt and Taft engage in a brutal fight for the presidency – a fight that destroys both their political futures, while seriously weakening the progressive wing of the Republican Party, and dividing their wives, their children, and their closest friends.
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Biography Autobiography Memoir, Politics Current Events, Politics and government, Progressivism (United States politics)
