The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft
New York: Fleet Press Corporation, 1967. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. x, 213 pages. 22 cm. Notes. Taft Chronology. Index. Bookplate from the Taft Institute of Government signed by May Davie. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears. A project of the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government. Eugenie Mary "May" Ladenburg Davie (1895–September 19, 1975) was a noted Republican activist in New York City. She was second wife to influential lawyer Preston Davie. Davie was descended from a Tammany Hall founder and was a lifelong activist. Her 1917 affair with Bernard Baruch was of great interest to Alice Roosevelt Longworth who monitored the affair "in the name of patriotism," in the words of historian Blanche Wiesen Cook. She once angered pilot Amelia Earhart by injecting political commentary into an introduction. Davie was on the Republican National Finance Committee, a regent of the National Library of Medicine, a trustee at Adelphi College and Long Island University; chairwoman of the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government. She became an active member of the Republican Party and was the head of the Woman’s Auxiliary during Wendell Willkie’s campaign to unseat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Republican Party, Civil Rights, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Taft-Hartley, Universal Military Training, Organized Labor, Socialized Medicine, Imperialism
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Price: $100.00