The William Howard Taft presidency
By: Lewis L. Gould.
Series: American presidency series
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780700616749
Subjects: Taft, William H. -- 1857-1930; United States -- Politics and government -- 1909-1913
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The man of the hour" in 1908; title: Being his own king; title: The new president and his country; title: A substantial revision downward : the Payne Aldrich Tariff; title: The Ballinger Pinchot controversy; title: Taft, Knox, and dollar diplomacy; title: Taft and Congress, 1910; title: Taft, Roosevelt, and the 1910 election; title: Taft as administrator; title: Reciprocity, revolution, and arbitration; title: Toward a break with Roosevelt; title: "Roosevelt was my closest friend"; title: The 1912 campaign; title: Leaving the White House.