The inaugural volume of "The Collected Works of William Howard Taft" is composed of two of his earliest books, "Four Aspects of Civic Duty" and "Present Day Problems."
Based on a series of lectures delivered at Yale in 1906, "Four Aspects of Civic Duty" is an attempt by then Secretary of War Taft to bring to the attention of his audience the importance of civic duty from the perspective of the university graduate, the judge on the bench, the colonial administrator, and the national executive branch of government. His remarks were drawn from his own experience, while at the same time he...