Author: Robert Alphonso Taft
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387644
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1945-1948
Author: Robert Alphonso Taft
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387644
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387644
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1939-1944
Author: Robert Alphonso Taft
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873386791
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
This volume documents Robert Taft's first term in the United States Senate and marks his entrance onto the national political and policymaking stage.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873386791
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
This volume documents Robert Taft's first term in the United States Senate and marks his entrance onto the national political and policymaking stage.
The Papers of Robert A. Taft
Author: Robert Alphonso Taft
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385725
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385725
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Personal Papers of Robert Taft
Author: Robert Taft
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953
Author: Robert Alphonso Taft
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873388511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The final volume of the Taft papers 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 approached, convinced he had to win reelection in Ohio by a large margin if he was to establish himself as a frontrunner in the primary campaign for the 1952 presidential election. Moderate Republicans spurned Taft and doubted that the serious, partisan senator could successfully head a national ticket. His support, nevertheless, was essential to the 1952 Eisenhower presidential campaign. Taft's service as Senate majority leader proved indispensable to President Eisenhower during the early months of his first term, helping the president navigate the byways of the nation's capital. Even after his diagnosis of cancer in April 1953, he continued to work at his senatorial duties until he died in July 1953. This volume completes the contribution that The Papers of Robert A. Taft provides to the study of United States political and diplomatic history, Ohio history, and conservative political theory.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873388511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The final volume of the Taft papers 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 approached, convinced he had to win reelection in Ohio by a large margin if he was to establish himself as a frontrunner in the primary campaign for the 1952 presidential election. Moderate Republicans spurned Taft and doubted that the serious, partisan senator could successfully head a national ticket. His support, nevertheless, was essential to the 1952 Eisenhower presidential campaign. Taft's service as Senate majority leader proved indispensable to President Eisenhower during the early months of his first term, helping the president navigate the byways of the nation's capital. Even after his diagnosis of cancer in April 1953, he continued to work at his senatorial duties until he died in July 1953. This volume completes the contribution that The Papers of Robert A. Taft provides to the study of United States political and diplomatic history, Ohio history, and conservative political theory.
Mr. Republican
Author: James T. Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Offers a sympathetic portrait of the U.S. Senator and presidential aspirant drawn from his personal papers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Offers a sympathetic portrait of the U.S. Senator and presidential aspirant drawn from his personal papers.
Robert A. Taft
Author: Clarence E. Wunderlin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742544901
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Robert A. Taft, the son of president and chief justice William H. Taft, was one of the twentieth-century's most prominent conservative American legislators. First and foremost a consummate politician, Taft viewed the Republican party as the nation's most effective political instrument of progress.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742544901
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Robert A. Taft, the son of president and chief justice William H. Taft, was one of the twentieth-century's most prominent conservative American legislators. First and foremost a consummate politician, Taft viewed the Republican party as the nation's most effective political instrument of progress.
The Candy Bombers
Author: Andrei Cherny
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440635951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
In the tradition of the great narrative storytellers, Andrei Cherny recounts the exhilarating saga of the unlikely men who made the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. “What an exciting, inspiring, and wonderfully-written book this is....Each page has lessons for today, and it is also a thrilling narrative to read.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs The Candy Bombers is a remarkable story with profound implications for our own time. Cherny tells the tale of the ill-assorted group of castoffs and secondstringers who not only saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat, but also won the hearts of America’s defeated enemies, inspired people around the world to believe in America’s fundamental goodness, avoided World War III, and won the greatest battle of the Cold War without firing a shot. With newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews, The Candy Bombers takes readers along as American pilots, with only a few small rickety planes, manage to feed and supply West Berlin completely by air for nearly a year; as Harry Truman exploits the very real threat of war to win an upset reelection campaign; as America’s first secretary of defense descends into madness in the midst of a dangerous military crisis; and as a lovesick American pilot shows that acts of basic human kindness can send powerful ripples through the course of history.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440635951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
In the tradition of the great narrative storytellers, Andrei Cherny recounts the exhilarating saga of the unlikely men who made the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. “What an exciting, inspiring, and wonderfully-written book this is....Each page has lessons for today, and it is also a thrilling narrative to read.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs The Candy Bombers is a remarkable story with profound implications for our own time. Cherny tells the tale of the ill-assorted group of castoffs and secondstringers who not only saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat, but also won the hearts of America’s defeated enemies, inspired people around the world to believe in America’s fundamental goodness, avoided World War III, and won the greatest battle of the Cold War without firing a shot. With newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews, The Candy Bombers takes readers along as American pilots, with only a few small rickety planes, manage to feed and supply West Berlin completely by air for nearly a year; as Harry Truman exploits the very real threat of war to win an upset reelection campaign; as America’s first secretary of defense descends into madness in the midst of a dangerous military crisis; and as a lovesick American pilot shows that acts of basic human kindness can send powerful ripples through the course of history.
First to the Party
Author: Christopher Baylor
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
What determines the interests, ideologies, and alliances that make up political parties? In its entire history, the United States has had only a handful of party transformations. First to the Party concludes that groups like unions and churches, not voters or politicians, are the most consistent influences on party transformation.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
What determines the interests, ideologies, and alliances that make up political parties? In its entire history, the United States has had only a handful of party transformations. First to the Party concludes that groups like unions and churches, not voters or politicians, are the most consistent influences on party transformation.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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