My Dearest Nellie

Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780700618002

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My Dearest Nellie by Lewis L. Gould Pdf

Few presidential couples enjoyed a closer relationship in the White House than Will and Nellie Taft. Throughout William Howard Taft's rise in American politics, she had been his most intimate confidant. When circumstances separated them, as when Helen Herron Taft became incapacitated by a stroke and was unable to accompany the president on his storied travels-or was herself on recuperative trips-she pressed him for letters, and he obliged with gossipy correspondence that provides a fascinating account of his presidency at decisive moments in his single term. These 113 letters, all but a few never before published, represent a rare glimpse into the mind of a chief executive speaking candidly about individuals and issues. In them, Taft commented on political issues he encountered and decisions he made-as well as his growing disillusion with Theodore Roosevelt, his unhappiness with Congress, and his struggles with his weight and golf score. Breathing new life into a bygone era in all of its complexity and humanity, they also open a new window on Washington early in the twentieth century-providing Taft's reactions not only to social figures of the Progressive Era but also to the impact of innovations like the automobile and rudimentary air conditioning. Sometimes indiscreet and frustrated with his political prospects, Taft comes through as a man who worked hard at a job for which he was not well suited. Indeed, Taft has been written off as a failed chief executive who was pushed into office by his wife; yet, as he insisted to Nellie, he was a creditable chief executive confronted with a changing political environment. Taft's letters may not warrant calling him a great president, but they reveal a more thoughtful occupant of the White House than scholars have acknowledged. Other than those that Harry Truman wrote to Bess, there is no comparable archive of modern presidential letters to a spouse that equals the letters to "Dearest Nellie" that Will Taft sent. Edited and introduced by a leading historian of the Progressive Era, Taft's letters not only reveal the inner workings of a presidency at decisive moments but also humanize a chief executive to whom history has been less than kind.

Author : Jeffrey Rosen
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250293695

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William Howard Taft by Jeffrey Rosen Pdf

The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders’ vision against new populist threats to American democracy William Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United States. But despite his ambivalence about politics, the former federal judge found success in the executive branch as governor of the Philippines and secretary of war, and he won a resounding victory in the presidential election of 1908 as Theodore Roosevelt’s handpicked successor. In this provocative assessment, Jeffrey Rosen reveals Taft’s crucial role in shaping how America balances populism against the rule of law. Taft approached each decision as president by asking whether it comported with the Constitution, seeking to put Roosevelt’s activist executive orders on firm legal grounds. But unlike Roosevelt, who thought the president could do anything the Constitution didn’t forbid, Taft insisted he could do only what the Constitution explicitly allowed. This led to a dramatic breach with Roosevelt in the historic election of 1912, which Taft viewed as a crusade to defend the Constitution against the demagogic populism of Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Nine years later, Taft achieved his lifelong dream when President Warren Harding appointed him chief justice, and during his years on the Court he promoted consensus among the justices and transformed the judiciary into a modern, fully equal branch. Though he had chafed in the White House as a judicial president, he thrived as a presidential chief justice.

Author : Helen Tower Brunet
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595343843

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Nellie and Charlie by Helen Tower Brunet Pdf

Through diaries, letters and contemporary accounts, the author, the lastborn grandchild of the Towers, spins a personal history of an American family living on 2 continents at the turn of the century.

Author : Kevin J. Burns
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700632114

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William Howard Taft's Constitutional Progressivism by Kevin J. Burns Pdf

In William Howard Taft’s Constitutional Progressivism Kevin J. Burns makes a compelling case that Taft’s devotion to the Constitution of 1787 contributed to his progressivism. In contrast to the majority of scholarship, which has viewed Taft as a reactionary conservative because of his constitutionalism, Burns explores the ways Taft’s commitment to both the Constitution and progressivism drove his political career and the decisions he made as president and chief justice. Taft saw the Constitution playing a positive role in American political life, recognizing that it created a national government strong enough to enact broad progressive reforms. In reevaluating Taft’s career, Burns highlights how Taft rejected the “laisser [sic] faire school,” which taught that “the Government ought to do nothing but run a police force.” Recognizing that the massive industrial changes following the Civil War had created a plethora of socioeconomic ills, Taft worked to expand the national government’s initiatives in the fields of trust-busting, land conservation, tariff reform, railroad regulation, and worker safety law. Burns offers a fuller understanding of Taft and his political project by emphasizing Taft’s belief that the Constitution could play a constructive role in American political life by empowering the government to act and by undergirding and protecting the reform legislation the government implemented. Moreover, Taft recognized that if the Constitution could come to the aid of progressivism, political reform might also redound to the benefit of the Constitution by showing its continued relevance and workability in modern America. Although Taft’s efforts to promote significant policy-level reforms attest to his progressivism, his major contribution to American political thought is his understanding of the US Constitution as a fundamental law, not a policy-oriented document. In many ways Taft can be thought of as an originalist, yet his originalism was marked by a belief in robust national powers. Taft’s constitutionalism remains relevant because while his principles seem foreign to modern legal discourse, his constitutional vision offers an alternative to contemporary political divisions by combining political progressivism-liberalism with constitutional conservatism.

Author : Roša Nouchette Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600073283

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Barbara Heathcote's trial, by the author of 'Nellie's memories.' 3 vols by Roša Nouchette Carey Pdf

Author : George G. Kundahl
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807895709

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The Bravest of the Brave by George G. Kundahl Pdf

Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks. Graduating from West Point in 1860, he joined the Confederate army as a captain. By the time of his death near the end of the war at the Battle of Cedar Creek, he had attained the rank of major general in the Army of Northern Virginia. He excelled in every assignment and was involved as a senior officer in many of the war's most important conflicts east of the Appalachians. Ramseur's letters--over 180 of which are collected and transcribed here by George Kundahl--provide his incisive observations on these military events. At the same time, they offer rare insight into the personal opinions of a high-ranking Civil War officer. Correspondence by Civil War figures is often strictly professional. But in personal letters to his wife, Nellie, and best friend, David Schenk, Ramseur candidly expresses beliefs about the social, military, and political issues of the day. He also shares vivid accounts of battle and daily camp life, providing colorful details on soldiering during the war.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017814208

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The Ten Cent “Ten Little Injuns” Songster by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Wolraich
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137438089

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Unreasonable Men by Michael Wolraich Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street's corrupting influence from Washington. Their opponents called them "radicals," and "fanatics." They called themselves Progressives. President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved of La Follette's confrontational methods. Fearful of splitting the party, he compromised with the conservative House Speaker, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, to pass modest reforms. But as La Follette's crusade gathered momentum, the country polarized, and the middle ground melted away. Three years after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt embraced La Follette's militant tactics and went to war against the Republican establishment, bringing him face to face with his handpicked successor, William Taft. Their epic battle shattered the Republican Party and permanently realigned the electorate, dividing the country into two camps: Progressive and Conservative. Unreasonable Men takes us into the heart of the epic power struggle that created the progressive movement and defined modern American politics. Recounting the fateful clash between the pragmatic Roosevelt and the radical La Follette, Wolraich's riveting narrative reveals how a few Republican insurgents broke the conservative chokehold on Congress and initiated the greatest period of political change in America's history.

Author : Robert Saint John CORBET
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017503319

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Sir Harry and the Widows, Or, Nothing Hazard, Nothing Lose by Robert Saint John CORBET Pdf

Author : B. G. Jefferis
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis Pdf

Knowledge is Safety. 1. The old maxim, that "Knowledge is power," is a true one, but there is still a greater truth: "Knowledge is Safety." Safety amid physical ills that beset mankind, and safety amid the moral pitfalls that surround so many young people, is the great crying demand of the age. 2. Criticism.—While the aim of this work, though novel and to some extent is daring, it is chaste, practical and to the point, and will be a boon and a blessing to thousands who consult its pages. The world is full of ignorance, and the ignorant will always criticise, because they live to suffer ills, for they know no better. New light is fast falling upon the dark corners, and the eyes of many are being opened. 3. Researches of Science.—The researches of science in the past few years have thrown light on many facts relating to the physiology of man and woman, and the diseases to which they are subject, and consequently many reformations have taken place in the treatment and prevention of diseases peculiar to the sexes. 4. Lock and Key.—Any information bearing upon the diseases of mankind should not be kept under lock and key. The physician is frequently called upon to speak in plain language to his patients upon some private and startling disease contracted on account of ignorance. The better plan, however, is to so educate and enlighten old and young upon the important subjects of health, so that the necessity to call a physician may occur less frequently. 5. Progression.—A large, respectable, though diminishing class in every community, maintain that nothing that relates exclusively to either sex should become the subject of popular medical instruction. But such an opinion is radically wrong; ignorance is no more the mother of purity than it is of religion. Enlightenment can never work injustice to him who investigates. 6. An Example.—The men and women who study and practice medicine are not the worse, but the better for such knowledge; so it would be to the community in general if all would be properly instructed on the laws of health which relate to the sexes.

Author : Benjamin Grant Jefferis,James Lawrence Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Etiquette
ISBN : UIUC:30112112127920

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Search Lights on Health by Benjamin Grant Jefferis,James Lawrence Nichols Pdf

Author : Dr. Kusum Lunia,B. G. Jefferis,J. L. Nichols,Louis Philippe McCarty
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 1470 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Secret of Healthy Life : Health, Happiness, and Longevity (Ultimate collection of 3 Books) Secrets Of Health/ Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics/ Health, Happiness, and Longevity by Dr. Kusum Lunia,B. G. Jefferis,J. L. Nichols,Louis Philippe McCarty Pdf

The Secret of Healthy Life : Health, Happiness, and Longevity (Ultimate collection of 3 Books) The Best Combo Collection of All Time Bestseller Books of the An Anthology Contains: Secrets Of Health. Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics. Health, Happiness, and Longevity.

Author : Richard Slocum
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0573652236

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The Gemshield Sleeper and Other Plays for Children by Richard Slocum Pdf

Author : B. G. Jefferis,J. L. Nichols
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613105771

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Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics by B. G. Jefferis,J. L. Nichols Pdf

Author : John C. Skipper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781476667010

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Roosevelt's Revolt by John C. Skipper Pdf

The presidential election of 1912 was the only one whose candidates included an incumbent president, a former president and a future president. Theodore Roosevelt, in the Oval Office from 1901 to 1909, chose not to run again. When his former Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, took controversial actions as his successor, Roosevelt challenged him for the 1912 Republican nomination. Taft emerged as the nominee and Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate on the Progressive (Bull Moose) ticket, causing a split in the GOP that allowed Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency. The author examines the election in detail and traces the effects of Roosevelt's actions on the Republican Party for decades. Appendices detail Republican primary results and all of the parties' platforms and provide a summary of presidential assassinations and attempts.