William Howard Taft : The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (Hardcover)

Part I. To the Presidency: 1. The early years; 2. Judge, justice, and justices, 1887?1900; 3. Perambulations and preparation in the Philippines: Roosevelt and Taft; 4. The unwilling heir, 1904?8; Part II. The Presidency: 5. President Taft: tensions, turmoil, travel, and travail, 1909?10; 6. Justices and jockeying, 1910; 7. At the brink of the break, 1911; 8. The split, 1912; 9. Relief, rejuvenation, and renewal, 1913?21; 10. Epilogue.