William Howard Taft: The President Who Became Chief Justice 1970 HC w/ DJ Ex Lib

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase is supporting Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are all donated from different sources. This book is in good condition, and an ex-library book, library stamps and markings, see photos for details. If you find several items, message me and I’ll be happy to combine shipping. All his life, even as a boy growing up in Ohio, Will Taft longed to be on the Supreme Court. He became the only man ever to hold the nation's two highest offices, first as President and then as Chief Justice. Along the way, he was at the center of exciting events that spanned history from the administration of Benjamin Harrison to the Prohibition Era of the roaring Twenties. One of the Supreme Court's boldest administrators since John Marshall, Taft helped to revamp outmoded rules of procedure and bring reforms that were to lift the Court system out of its antiquated past to meet the needs of the Twentieth Century. An outstanding Federal judge, Solicitor General of the United States, and builder of government in the Philippines as its first governor, Taft was also a settler of revolutions, diplomat, the man in charge of constructing the Panama Canal, Secretary of War, a Yale law professor, and a pioneer crusader for world peace. Here is a fresh look at William Howard Taft as the warm, human individual behind the usual stereotype of the fat-man President. Through the personal story of Taft the man, the reader is given a deeper understanding of events that changed the nation's history as the United States became a world power and moved into the present age of international problems and great social changes at home. Written as a companion volume to Bill Severn's other well-received biographies of Chief Justices, John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Court Supreme and Mr. Chief Justice: Earl Warren, this is a carefully researched account, factual and informative, but also the moving story of the personal drama and conflict in the life of William Howard Taft. A well-known biographer, writer of popular social histories and other books, Mr. Severn, a former news editor for a national press service, devotes his full time to writing for young people. His thirty published books include biographies of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Polk and Garfield, and such famous American political figures as Adlai Stevenson and Wendell Willkie. He and his wife Sue, who is a production supervisor for a group of magazines, divide their time between an apartment in New York and a home in Pertchira County Macc

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