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| Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition, and Party in U.S. Foreign Policy Contributor(s): Wunderlin, Clarence E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742544907 ISBN-13: 9780742544901 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2005 Annotation: In examining the life of former Senator Robert A. Taft, this volume illuminates not only the history of the conservative opposition to liberal internationalism in the 1940s, but tells us much about the contest over America's proper place in the global economy. Through careful research, Wunderlin offers a fresh look at one of the most important Republican Party congressional leaders of the twentieth century. Click for more in this series: Biographies in American Foreign Policy (Paperback) |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004023941 |
| Series: Biographies in American Foreign Policy (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.16" W x 8.94" L (0.76 lbs) 243 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Robert A. Taft, the son of president and chief justice William H. Taft, is one of twentieth-century America's most prominent conservative legislators. Elected into office ten months before the outbreak of the Second World War, Taft quickly established himself as a leader among the anti-interventionists, fervently supporting legislation intended to keep the nation from engaging in another international war. In the years following the war, Taft embraced balance-of-power theories that he had belittled in earlier years, and his political arguments fell increasingly within the framework of anti-communism. First and foremost a consummate politician, Taft viewed the Republican party as the nation's most effective political instrument of progress. Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition, and Party in U.S. Foreign Policy furnishes both an intellectual and historical context for Taft's twentieth-century conservatism. In this long overdue analysis, Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr. explores Taft's ideological ties to the hundred-year long sweep of Whig and Republican party theory and practice. Building upon these foundations, Wunderlin carefully examines the concept of American nationalism that formed an important component of Taft's political thinking. Robert A. Taft is an original, engaging study that will be of great value to political theorists and those interested in twentieth-century intellectual history and political philosophy. |
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