William Howard Taft

Lewis H. Lapham; John Morton Blum; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor); Sean Wilentz (Editor); Jeffrey Rosen

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 democracyWilliam Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United State...