William Howard Taft by Jeffrey Rosen
A compact, revisionist biography that traces the arc of a stolid, deliberately legalistic public figure from Ohio who served both as president and later as chief justice, arguing that his true legacy lies in the law rather than in politics. The narrative follows his early ambition, his uneasy partnership and later rupture with a more flamboyant rival, and his discomfort with the rough-and-tumble of electoral politics, then shows how his temperament, administrative skill, and devotion to institutional norms made him a consequential architect of the federal judiciary. The book balances personal detail and political drama with analysis of key decisions and reforms, reassessing a man often caricatured as bumbling into a sober, influential guardian of constitutional order.
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