Jonathan Lurie

William Howard Taft

The Travails of a Progressive Conservative

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Produktbeschreibung

This book sheds new light on William Howard Taft, re-examining the Taft Theodore Roosevelt relationship and placing Taft in a progressive context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780521514217
• ISBN-10: 0521514215
• Artikelnr.: 33260379

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Lurie is a Professor of History Emeritus and Academic Integrity Officer at Rutgers University, where he has been a member of the history department since 1969. His books include The Chicago Board of Trade, Law and the Nation, Arming Military Justice, Pursuing Military Justice, The Slaughterhouse Cases (co-authored with Ronald Labbe), Military Justice in America and The Chase Court. His fields of interest comprise legal history, military justice, constitutional law and history and the eras of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The book on the Slaughterhouse cases received the Scribes award in 2003 as the best book written on law for that year. Lurie served as a Fulbright Lecturer at Uppsala University Law School in Sweden in 2005, was the Visiting Professor of Law at West Point from 1994 to 1995 and has lectured on several occasions at the United States Supreme Court.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. To the Presidency: 1. The early years; 2. Judge
justice
and justices
1887-1900; 3. Perambulations and preparation in the Philippines: Roosevelt and Taft; 4. The unwilling heir
1904-8; Part II. The Presidency: 5. President Taft: tensions
turmoil
travel
and travail
1909-10; 6. Justices and jockeying
1910; 7. At the brink of the break
1911; 8. The split
1912; 9. Relief
rejuvenation
and renewal
1913-21; 10. Epilogue.