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As Our 27th President From 1909 To 1913, And Then As Chief Justice Of The Supreme Court From 1921 To 1930, William Howard Taft Was The Only Man Ever To Lead Two Of America's Three Governing Branches. But Between These Two Well-documented Periods In Office, There Lies An Eight-year Patch Of Largely Unexplored Political Wilderness. It Was During This Time, After All, That Taft Somehow Managed To Rise From His Ignominious Defeat By Both Woodrow Wilson And Theodore Roosevelt In The 1912 Election To Achieve His Lifelong Goal Of Becoming Chief Justice. In The First In-depth Look At This Period In Taft's Singular Career, Eminent Presidential Historian Lewis L. Gould Reveals How A Man Often Derided For His Lack Of Political Acumen Made His Way Through The Hazards Of Republican Affairs To Gain His Objective.^ In The Years Between The Presidency And The Supreme Court Taft Was, As One Commentator Observed, The Greatest Of Globe Trotters For Humanity. Gould Tracks Him As He Crisscrosses The Country From 1913 Through The Summer Of 1921, The Inveterate Traveler Reinventing Himself As An Elder Republican Statesman With No Visible Political Ambition Beyond Informing And Serving The Public. Taft Wa

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Author

Lewis L. Gould

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700620012

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.3 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14