William Howard Taft : confident peacemaker / by David H. Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, David H. (David Henry), 1925-2016.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.

Taft, William H.

United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921.

United States.

International relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 173 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Saint Joseph's University Press ; New York : Fordham University Press, [2004]

Summary:

This book is a study of the internationalism of William Howard Taft. In the months after war broke out in 1914, Taft was second only to Woodrow Wilson in his awareness of the need to preserve the peace of the world through a new version of international organization. Built upon a synthetic interpretation of Taft's foreign policy ideas and initiatives, the book encompasses the whole of his public career as a statesman, from his years as civil governor of the Philippines through his tenure as chief justice of the Supreme Court. During those years, he moved from a basic belief in the theory and practice of balance of power to the application of dollar diplomacy. In response to the calamity of World War I, Taft came to recognize that world peace must be based upon a combination of idealism and realism, of high-minded principles placed and kept in effect by force, deliberately chosen and carefully applied.

Contents:

Ordered Beginnings 1

Learning Curve 27

Evolving Vision 59

World Order in the Offing 85

Conservative Interationalist 115

The Taft-Katsura Agreement (1905) 126

The Havana Speech (1906) 128

The Root-Takahira Agreement (1908) 135

Canadian Reciprocity Treaty (1911) 137

Arbitration Treaties (1911) 143

Dollar Diplomacy (1912) 145

The Warrant From History (1915) 149

Self-Determination (1919) 150

Senator Lodge on the League of Nations (1919) 153

Criticism Should Be Constructive (1919) 157

To Make Peace Secure (1919) 161

The Victory Program (1918) 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-124) and index.

ISBN:

0916101517

0916101509

OCLC:

55534893