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Author:

Gould, Lewis L.

Title:

The William Howard Taft presidency / Lewis L. Gould.

Publisher:

University Press of Kansas,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xv, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Politics and government--1909-1913.
Taft, William H.--(William Howard),--1857-1930.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-259) and index.

Contents:

"The man of the hour" in 1908 -- Being his own king -- The new president and his country -- A substantial revision downward : the Payne Aldrich Tariff -- The Ballinger Pinchot controversy -- Taft, Knox, and dollar diplomacy -- Taft and Congress, 1910 -- Taft, Roosevelt, and the 1910 election -- Taft as administrator -- Reciprocity, revolution, and arbitration -- Toward a break with Roosevelt -- "Roosevelt was my closest friend" -- The 1912 campaign -- Leaving the White House.

Series:

American presidency series

ISBN:

0700616748 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700616749 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320184932

LCCN:

2009019219

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ZBPE245 -- Norelius Community Library (Denison)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

LOAX706 -- Library, Eastern Iowa CC (Muscatine)

P1AX906 -- Indian Hills Community College Library - Ottumwa (Ottumwa)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)