Name: William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative
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Author: Jonathan Lurie
ISBN: 9780521514217

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William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Jonathan Lurie

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

232

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780521514217

Synopsis "William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative "

In this new 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 reexamines 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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