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Robert A. Taft : ideas, tradition, and party in U.S. foreign policy / Clarence E. Wunderlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wunderlin, Clarence E.
- Series:
- Biographies in American foreign policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953.
- Taft, Robert A.
- Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953--Political and social views.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--20th century.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Nationalism.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- Conservatism--United States--History--20th century.
- Conservatism.
- Nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1953.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : SR Books/Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]
- Summary:
- Robert A. Taft, the son of president and chief justice William H. Taft, was one of twentieth-century America's most prominent conservative legislators. 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 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 those interested in politics, theory, and history.
- Contents:
- 1 Education of a Senator 9
- 2 The Fight Against Intervention 33
- 3 Wartime Debates, Postwar Vision 71
- 4 Critic of Postwar Liberalism 107
- 5 Cold Warrior 143
- 6 Mr. Republican 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742544893
- 0742544907
- OCLC:
- 56798882
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