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Jonathan Lurie, Jonathan (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Lurie

William Howard Taft

Name: William Howard Taft
Author: Jonathan Lurie

The Travails of a Progressive Conservative

Paperback Engels 2014 9781107425132

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In this biographical study of the only American ever to have been both President and Chief Justice of the United States, Jonathan Lurie reassesses William Howard Taft's multiple careers, which culminated in Taft's election to the presidency in 1908 as the chosen successor to Theodore Roosevelt. By 1912, however, the relationship between Taft and Roosevelt had ruptured. Lurie re-examines the Taft–Roosevelt friendship and concludes that it rested on flimsy ground. He also places Taft in a progressive context, taking Taft's own self-description as 'a believer in progressive conservatism' as the starting point. At the end of his biography, Lurie concludes that this label is accurate when applied to Taft.

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ISBN13:9781107425132

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Aantal pagina's:232

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

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Part I. To the Presidency: 1. The early years; 2. Judge, justice, and justices, 1887–1900; 3. Perambulations and preparation in the Philippines: Roosevelt and Taft; 4. The unwilling heir, 1904–8; Part II. The Presidency: 5. President Taft: tensions, turmoil, travel, and travail, 1909–10; 6. Justices and jockeying, 1910; 7. At the brink of the break, 1911; 8. The split, 1912; 9. Relief, rejuvenation, and renewal, 1913–21; 10. Epilogue.

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