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100 1  Gould, Lewis L. 
245 14 The William Howard Taft presidency /|cLewis L. Gould. 
264  1 Lawrence :|bUniversity Press of Kansas,|c2009. 
300    xiii, 269 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  American presidency series 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and 
       index. 
505 0  "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. 
520    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. 
600 10 Taft, William H.|q(William Howard),|d1857-1930. 
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600 17 Taft, William H.|2swd 
648  0 Geschichte 1909-1913. 
648  7 Geschichte 1909-1913.|2swd 
648  7 1909-1913|2fast 
650  7 Politics and government.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919741 
650 07 Politik.|0(DE-588)4046514-7|2gnd 
650 07 Politik.|2swd 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y1909-1913. 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
651  7 United States.|0(DE-588)4078704-7|2gnd 
651  7 United States.|2swd 
830  0 American presidency series. 
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