William Howard Taft and United States Foreign Policy; The Apprenticeship Years, 1900-1908
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 241, [3] pages. Footnotes. Bibliographical Essay. Selected Bibliography. Index. Previous owner's embossed seal on title page. The author was a professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago and was noted for this work and his Essays in United States History. William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices. In 1901, President McKinley appointed Taft civilian governor of the Philippines. In 1904, Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and he became Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Despite his ambition to become chief justice, Taft declined offers of appointment to the Supreme Court, believing his political work to be more important. In the White House, he focused on East Asia more than European affairs and intervened to prop up or remove Latin American governments. Taft sought reductions to trade tariffs, then a major source of governmental income, but the resulting bill was heavily influenced by special interests. His administration was filled with conflict between the conservative wing of the Republican Party, with which Taft often sympathized, and the progressive wing, toward which Roosevelt moved more and more. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Diplomacy, Civil Government, Canal Zone, Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, Arthur MacArthur, Elihu Root, Philippine Insurrection
ISBN: 0252004272
[Book #78520]
Price: $75.00