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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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This volume of Taft's work presents two publications he wrote as a professor at Yale University after failing in his re-election campaign. "Popular Government" articulates his opposition to direct democracy, and "The Anti-trust Act and the Supreme Court" argues for restraint in trade.

Emulating Plutarch, this book compares and contrasts the lives of ten famous British and American historical figures. Each of the pairs is given an historical introduction, followed by interpretive essays on each of the paired lives, and a summary of their historical significance.

This book is a concise, interpretive account of the life of Clara Barton from her childhood in Massachusetts through her feats of heroism during the Civil War, her founding of the American Red Cross, which she led for 20 years, and her bitterly contested ejection from office which clouded her last decade. Clara Barton (1821-1912) led a life "in the service of humanity." Undoubtedly heroic and undoubtedly generous in her impulse to aid others, ...

This book is a study of the internationalism of William Howard Taft. In the months after war broke out in 1914, Taft was second only to Woodrow Wilson in his awareness of the need to preserve the peace of the world through a new version of international organization. Built upon a synthetic interpretation of Taft's foreign policy ideas and initiatives, the book encompasses the whole of his public career as a statesman, from his years as civil g...

This warm and affectionate collection of letters exchanged between Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, and Patrick Augustine Sheehan, Irish priest, enhances the reputation of Holmes as one of the great letter writers in American history and illuminates the highly complex and controversial "mind and faith" of Justice Holmes in new and significant ways. Holmes, the man of science, and Sheehan, the man of God, face each other in these le...

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Volume six of these collected works follows the career of William Howard Taft upon his leaving the White House. It consists of two publications from 1914 and 1915. Taft's reasoned arguments, supplemented by commentaries should stimulate interest among historians, lawyers and political activists.

The second volume of Taft's collected works is dedicated to the speeches and writings of the autumn of 1908 and the following winter. It was at this time that Taft was campaigning for the presidency against the well-known William Jennings Bryan.

Providing a window on his leadership, this collection presents Taft's messages to the legislative branch of Congress and concerns some of the pressing issues of the day. He was often at odds with a somewhat reactionary Congress, causing him to veto legislation that he thought unwise.

This collection of works of William Howard Taft aims to impart an appreciation of the range of the 27th president's interests and his thinking. It documents a pivotal time in the public life of this man from Ohio.

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This volume is a collection of ideas stated over a lifetime of service as administrator, diplomat, president, and Chief Justice. It singles out, from the total of Taft's writings and addresses, the essence of his convictions regarding government, diplomacy, and the law. Readers will find the ideas and beliefs of Taft as he dealt with a plethora of issues, principles, and judgments, a treasure of public wisdom satisfying in itself and yet stimu...

This book is about Theodore Roosevelt as a politician not as a statesman/politician, just a politician. The parties, persons, decisions, and mistakes that made up Roosevelts political experience are discussed, and the book seeks to isolate Roosevelt's political motivation and his moves to enhance an appreciation of his political savvy.