Best biography of william howard taft
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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
William H. Taft is often remembered as the president who may have gotten himself stuck in the White House bathtub.
He would prefer to be remembered as the only former president to have also served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Taft suffered the regrettable misfortune of having his presidency sandwiched between Theodore Roosevelt (a hard act to follow no matter what your political taste) and Woodrow Wilson (who history remembers as a president of great consequence).
But Taft’s story is an interesting tale of a talented legal mind who found himself incessantly (and reluctantly) pulled into the political arena. His wife constantly pushed him to live up to his “full potential” and Theodore Roosevelt, seeking a worthy successor, failed to appreciate that he didn’t have the necessary dose of enthusiasm, or talent, for leading the nation.
The destruction of Taft’s friendship with TR is heartbreaking (and captivating) but in the end, of course, Taft outlived the increasingly unhinged Roosevelt by more than a decade. And Taft spent most of that time exactly where he wanted to be all along: as Chief Justice.
Unfortunately, the world of Taft-oriented biographies is not siza
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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
If you’ve read one biography of Teddy Roosevelt, you’ve already gotten to know William Howard Taft. If you’ve read several bios of TR, you’ve gotten to know Taft extremely well.
Roosevelt and Taft go together like chocolate and peanut butter – which is to say extremely well if you’re a fan of those two flavors, and quite poorly in many other cases.
But you really can’t understand (or appreciate) the drama embedded in William Taft’s life without studying his relationship with Roosevelt. TR was almost singlehandedly responsible for making, and later breaking, Taft. Their alliance-turned-sour was uniquely fascinating and has probably inspired more than one doctoral dissertation in the field of psychology.
In the end, after both men had permanently vacated the White House (hastened by a political case of Mutually Assured Destruction), Roosevelt and Taft reconciled. Within weeks TR died. Taft later became the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court – the job he had really wanted all along.
As part of my journey through Teddy Roosevelt’s best biographies I’ve already read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Bully Pulpit” – essentially a dual-biograp
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The William Thespian Taft Presidency
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