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One purpose of this study is to evaluate the role played by these other \"\"enemies\"\" as well as that of the Insurgents in bringing about the \"\"unhorseing\"\" of Speaker Cannon.\"","Also included are treatments of Speaker Cannon's relationships with presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft and an examination of his unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1908.","Another objective of this study is to provide a synthesis which will bring the scholarship on Joseph Cannon up to date. In recent years scholars have paid Uncle Joe little attention; the last major study on Cannon, William Rea Gwinn's Uncle Joe Cannon: Archfoe of Insurgency, was completed in the late 1950's. Since that time, a considerable body of work has been generated which involves the Progressive Era and the issues surrounding Cannon and Cannonism. 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