Jonathan Lurie

William Howard Taft (eBook, ePUB)

The Travails of a Progressive Conservative

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this biographical study of the only American ever to have been both President and Chief Justice of the United States, Jonathan Lurie reassesses William Howard Taft's multiple careers, which culminated in Taft's election to the presidency in 1908 as the chosen successor to Theodore Roosevelt. By 1912, however, the relationship between Taft and Roosevelt had ruptured. Lurie re-examines the Taft-Roosevelt friendship and concludes that it rested on flimsy ground. He also places Taft in a progressive context, taking Taft's own self-description as 'a believer in progressive conservatism' as the starting point. At the end of his biography, Lurie concludes that this label is accurate when applied to Taft.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139199469
• Artikelnr.: 52835629

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.