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Book The Visit of William Howard Taft to the University of Georgia  January 16th  1909

Download or read book The Visit of William Howard Taft to the University of Georgia January 16th 1909 written by University of Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visit of President Elect William H  Taft  the Georgia School of Technology  January 16  1909

Download or read book Visit of President Elect William H Taft the Georgia School of Technology January 16 1909 written by Georgia Institute of Technology and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Attempt of William Howard Taft to Break the Solid South

Download or read book The Attempt of William Howard Taft to Break the Solid South written by Ellis Merton Coulter and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency  1909 1913

Download or read book William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency 1909 1913 written by Michael L. Bromley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Howard Taft declared, "I am sure the automobile coming in as a toy of the wealthier class is going to prove the most useful of them all to all classes, rich and poor." Unlike his predecessors, who made public their disdain for the automobile, Taft saw the automobile industry as a great source of wealth for this country. The first president to acquire a car in office (Congress granted him three automobiles), Taft is responsible for there being a White House garage in 1909. This is a meticulously researched reappraisal of the oft-maligned Taft presidency focusing particularly on his cars, his relationship to the automobile and the role of the automobile in the politics of his day. Appendices provide information on the White House garage and stable, Taft's speech to the Automobile Club of America and a glossary of terms and names.

Book The William Howard Taft Presidency

Download or read book The William Howard Taft Presidency written by Lewis L. Gould and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that "I don't remember that I ever was President." Historians have agreed, and Taft is usually portrayed, when written about at all, as nothing more than a failed chief executive. In this provocative new study, the first treatment of the Taft presidency in four decades, Lewis L. Gould presents a compelling assessment of Taft's accomplishments and setbacks in office. Rich in human interest and fresh analysis of the events of Taft's four years in Washington, Gould's book shows why Taft's presidency is very much worth remembering on its own terms. Gould argues that Taft wanted to be president and had an ambitious agenda when he took power in March 1909. Approaching his duties more as a judge than as a charismatic executive in the mold of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft soon found himself out of step with public opinion. Gould shows how the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy squandered Taft's political capital and prepared the ground for Democratic victories in the elections of 1910 and 1912. His seamless narrative provides innovative treatments of these crucial episodes to make Taft's presidency more understandable than in any previous account. On Canadian Reciprocity, Dollar Diplomacy, and international arbitration, Gould's well-researched work goes beyond earlier stale clichs about Taft's administration to link his tenure to the evolution of the modern presidency. Taft emerges as a hard-working but flawed executive who lacked the excitement of Theodore Roosevelt or the inspiration of Woodrow Wilson. The break with Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 doomed the Taft presidency, and Gould supplies an evenhanded analysis of the erosion of their once warm friendship. At bottom, the two men clashed about the nature of presidential power, and Gould traces with insight how this personal and ideological rupture influenced the future of the Republican party and the course of American politics. In Gould's skilled hands, this neglected presidency again comes alive. Leaving the White House in 1913, Taft wrote that "the people of the United States did not owe me another election." What his presidency deserved is the lively and wise appraisal of his record in office contained in this superb book.

Book The Georgia Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The Georgia Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Howard Taft  American

Download or read book William Howard Taft American written by Robert Lee Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Works of William Howard Taft  Presidential addresses and state papers

Download or read book The Collected Works of William Howard Taft Presidential addresses and state papers written by William Howard Taft and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft imparts an appreciation of the range of the twenty-seventh president's interests. Beginning with his inaugural address and concluding with a detailed exposition of governmental expenses and needed economies, President William Howard Taft showed himself willing to tackle the routine as well as the rarified responsibilities of executive rule. Whether he was addressing the issue of strikes and labor unions or conservation, President Taft consistently demonstrated that, in word and action, he was prepared to be a modern president. What impresses the reader of these remarks is Taft's willingness to administer to virtually every part of the nation, thereby proving that he was not a mere figurehead but a chief executive truly concerned about problems across the country. Perhaps, as his words here indicate, Taft was not a good politician after all but a kind man who saw himself as president of all the people. As the first of two volumes directly related to Taft's tenure as president, Presidential Addresses and State Papers documents a pivotal time in the public life of this man from Ohio. Introduced by a commentary from the general series editor Professor David H. Burton, the third volume of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft underscores the presidential stature of William Howard Taft.

Book The Crucible of Race

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joel Williamson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1984-09-06
  • ISBN : 019802049X
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book The Crucible of Race written by Joel Williamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-06 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920. Covering all aspects of Southern life--white and black, conservative and progressive, literary and political--it offers a new understanding of the forces that shaped the South of today.

Book The Collected Works of William Howard Taft  Presidential messages to Congress

Download or read book The Collected Works of William Howard Taft Presidential messages to Congress written by William Howard Taft and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Howard Taft  the Man of the Hour

Download or read book William Howard Taft the Man of the Hour written by Oscar King Davis and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A President in Our Midst

Download or read book A President in Our Midst written by Kaye Lanning Minchew and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited Georgia forty-one times between 1924 and 1945. This rich gathering of photographs and remembrances documents the vital role of Georgia’s people and places in FDR’s rise from his position as a despairing politician daunted by disease to his role as a revered leader who guided the country through its worst depression and a world war. A native New Yorker, FDR called Georgia his “other state.” Seeking relief from the devastating effects of polio, he was first drawn there by the reputed healing powers of the waters at Warm Springs. FDR immediately took to Georgia, and the attraction was mutual. Nearly two hundred photos show him working and convalescing at the Little White House, addressing crowds, sparring with reporters, visiting fellow polio patients, and touring the countryside. Quotes by Georgians from a variety of backgrounds hint at the countless lives he touched during his time in the state. In Georgia, away from the limelight, FDR became skilled at projecting strength while masking polio’s symptoms. Georgia was also his social laboratory, where he floated new ideas to the press and populace and tested economic recovery projects that were later rolled out nationally. Most important, FDR learned to love and respect common Americans—beginning with the farmers, teachers, maids, railroad workers, and others he met in Georgia.

Book American Illustrated Magazine

Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yale Alumni Weekly

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  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1136 pages

Download or read book Yale Alumni Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yale Alumni Weekly

Download or read book The Yale Alumni Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: