This is the first volume of a projected four-volume edition of the select correspondence, speeches, and documents of Robert A. Taft(1889-1953), son of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft. The series makes available key documents of Taft's career, Ohio and Midwestern history, U.S. political and diplomatic history, and the study of conservative political theory. And it sheds light on one of the few political dynasties in U.S. history.
Robert A. Taft began his public career in the Republican party of his native Cincinnati and later worked in close association with Herbert...
This is the first volume of a projected four-volume edition of the select correspondence, speeches, and documents of Robert A. Taft(1889-1953), son...
This third volume in the series documents Robert A. Taft's experience through World War II and his early postwar years. After winning a tough reelection battle as senator from Ohio in 1944, Taft move steadily upward in the leadership ranks of his party and assumed a preeminent position among the bipartisan group of conservatives that increasingly dominated Congress.
This volume continues the contribution that The Papers of Robert A. Taft provides to the study of United State political and diplomatic history, Ohio history, and conservative political theory.
This third volume in the series documents Robert A. Taft's experience through World War II and his early postwar years. After winning a tough reele...
This fourth and final volume of a selected edition of the papers of Robert A. Taft documents Taft's post-World War II and congressional experiences until his death in 1953.
Regardless of his conservative commitments, Taft saw the need for responsible reform. In the immediate postwar years, he recognized the need for federal aid to education, for social welfare legislation that assisted the poor, and for federal support for public housing. Out of political necessity, Taft became more partisan as the 1950 senatorial campaign...
The final volume of the Taft papers
This fourth and final volume of a selected edition of the papers of Robert A. Taft documents Ta...