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Author Gould, Lewis L.

Title The William Howard Taft presidency / Lewis L. Gould.

Publication Info. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2009.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.912 GOULD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.91 GOULD    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series American presidency series
American presidency series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.
Contents "The man of the hour" in 1908 -- Being his own king -- The new president and his country -- Seeking downward revision : the Payne Aldrich Tariff -- The Ballinger Pinchot controversy -- Taft, Knox, and dollar diplomacy -- Taft and Congress, 1910 -- Taft, Roosevelt, and the 1910 election -- Taft as administrator -- Reciprocity, revolution, and arbitration -- Toward a break with Roosevelt -- "Roosevelt was my closest friend" -- The 1912 campaign -- Leaving the White House.
Summary Gould argues that Taft wanted to be president and had an ambitious agenda when he took power in March 1909. Approaching his duties more as a judge than as a charismatic executive in the mold of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft soon found himself out of step with public opinion. Gould shows how the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy squandered Taft's political capital and prepared the ground for Democratic victories in the elections of 1910 and 1912. His seamless narrative provides innovative treatments of these crucial episodes to make Taft's presidency more understandable than in any previous account. On Canadian reciprocity, dollar diplomacy, and international arbitration, Gould's work goes beyond earlier cliches about Taft's administration to link his tenure to the evolution of the modern presidency. The break with Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 doomed the Taft presidency, and Gould supplies an evenhanded analysis of the erosion of their once warm friendship. At bottom, the two men clashed about the nature of presidential power, and Gould traces with insight how this personal and ideological rupture influenced the future of the Republican party, and the course of American politics.
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1909-1913.
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930. (OCoLC)fst00031956
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Taft, William H., 1857-1930. (DE-588)118801198
Politik. (DE-588)4046514-7
United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
Taft, William H.
Politik.
United States.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1909-1913.
1909-1913
Geschichte 1909-1913.
ISBN 9780700616749 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
0700616748 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
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