Chief executive to chief justice Taft betwixt the White House and Supreme Court
"As our 27th president from 1909 to 1913, and then as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930, William Howard Taft was the only man ever to lead two of Americas three governing branches. But between these two well-documented periods in office, there lies an eight-year patch of largely u...
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- The rejected president
- "War is a dreadful thing"
- Strains in the Taft-Wilson relationship, 1915-1916
- The election of 1916 and American entry into the war
- From the fourteen points to the 1918 election
- The league or the party
- Taft and the treaty defeated
- Ambition achieved.
