The Taft Story

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Acknowledgments *
• Contents *
• I. the Fundamental Taft 1
• 1 - Cincinnati Dynasty 3
• 2 - Taft and Integrity 16
• 3 - The Background of Shelter 28
• 4 - Taft and the Constitution 41
• Ii. Taft in Responsibility and Irresponsibility 53
• 5 - Onset of the Power and the Glory 55
• 6 - Taft-Hartley, the Masterwork 66
• 7 - The Sad, Worst Period 80
• 8 - Return from Ohio 93
• 9 - Taft and the Two Gop's 106
• 10 - Crisis of 1948 116
• Iii. Taft and Foreign Policy 129
• 11 - The Last Speech 131
• 12 - On War and Peace 143
• 13 - "Soft" in Europe; "Hard" in Asia 156
• Iv. the Last, Best Taft 169
• 14 - The Defeat That Led to the Victory 171
• 15 - Morningside "Surrender" 184
• 16 - The Senate Man 195
• 17 - The New Alliance 206
• 18 - To Make the Administration Work 218
• 19 - Clean Bill for Bohlen 230
• 20 - The "Prime Minister" at His Peak 242
• 21 - The Political Last Testament 253
• 22 - The Illness and the Death 263
• Postscript and Now, the Future 273
• Index 283

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