William Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United States. But despite his ambivalence about politics, the former federal judge…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

Brains and body man has from God; what he makes of them depends upon himself. He is the driver of his own mental engine. He advances, stands still or falls…

A study of the internationalism of William Howard Taft. Built upon a synthetic interpretation of Taft’s foreign policy ideas and initiatives, the book encompasses the whole of his public career…

While biographies of William Howard Taft and histories of US-Philippine relations are easy to find, few works focus on Taft’s vision for the Philippines. William Howard Taft and the Philippines…

In The Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft, 1921-1930, Jonathan Lurie offers a comprehensive examination of the Supreme Court tenure of the only person to have held the offices of…

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