Pulitzer Prize Biography Winner
The Taft Story
by William S. White
Summary
William S. White profiles Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the conservative Republican known to admirers as Mister Republican. Drawing on his years covering the Senate, White examines Taft's principled stubbornness, his fights over labor and foreign policy, and his repeated bids for the presidency. The book offers an inside view of Senate power in the postwar years through the figure who came to embody party conservatism.
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Historical Context & Significance
White was a longtime New York Times congressional correspondent who knew Taft personally from the Senate beat.