Taft, Roosevelt and the Limits of Friendship

by David Henry Burton

Overview

This is a study of the changing relationship between two of the most important political figures of the first decades of the twentieth century. The author contrasts their backgrounds and training, their mind-sets, and their understanding of the power of the president to understand how they came to a parting of the ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611472912
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David H. Burton is professor emeritus of history at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He is the General Editor of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft. His American History-British Historians (1976) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and The Learned Presidency was selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 1988.