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1) William Taft
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This biography introduces readers to William Taft including his early political career and key events from Taft's administration including forming the US Children's Bureau and Arizona and New Mexico becoming states. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history....