TAFT, HOLMES, AND THE 1920s COURT: AN APPRAISAL

by David Henry Burton

Overview

This study is an account of how Taft and Holmes arrived at the summit of their public vocations. It reveals their common heritage and traces their divergence in jurisprudential matters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611471601
Publisher:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David H. Burton is professor emeritus of history at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He is the General Editor of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft. His American History-British Historians (1976) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and The Learned Presidency was selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 1988.