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The Taft Story

by William S. White

Pages: 288

Contributors: William S. White

Publisher: Harper

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1954

Subjects: Taft, Robert A--(Robert Alphonso),--1889-1953

Table of Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Contents

I. the Fundamental Taft

1: Cincinnati Dynasty

2: Taft and Integrity

3: The Background of Shelter

4: Taft and the Constitution

Ii. Taft in Responsibility and Irresponsibility

5: Onset of the Power and the Glory

6: Taft-Hartley, the Masterwork

7: The Sad, Worst Period

8: Return from Ohio

9: Taft and the Two Gop's

10: Crisis of 1948

Iii. Taft and Foreign Policy

11: The Last Speech

12: On War and Peace

13: "Soft" in Europe; "Hard" in Asia

Iv. the Last, Best Taft

14: The Defeat That Led to the Victory

15: Morningside "Surrender"

16: The Senate Man

17: The New Alliance

18: To Make the Administration Work

19: Clean Bill for Bohlen

20: The "Prime Minister" at His Peak

21: The Political Last Testament

22: The Illness and the Death

Postscript and Now, the Future

Index

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