William Howard Taft
Bibliography

 
General Studies
  • The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans. New York: Dell Publishing.,
  • Anderson, Donald F. William Howard Taft: A Conservative's Conception of the Presidency. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1973.
  • Anderson, Judith Icke. "A Mountain of Misery: An Intimate History of William Howard Taft." Ph.D. diss., University of California, 1973.
  • Anderson, Judith Icke. William Howard Taft: An Intimate History. New York: Norton, 1981.
  • Ballard, Rene N. "The Administrative Theory of William Howard Taft." Western Political Quarterly 7 (1954): 65-74.
  • Barker, Charles Edwin. With President Taft in the White House. Chicago: A. Kroch & Son, Publishers, 1947.
  • Biographical Cyclopaedia and Portrait Gallery with an Historical Sketch of the State of Ohio. Vol. 5. Cincinnati: Western Biographical Publishing Co., 1891, 1206.
  • Bickel, Alexander M. "Mr. Taft Rehabilitates the Court." 79 Yale Law Journal 1 (1969).
  • Black, Gilbert J., ed. William Howard Taft, 1857-1930; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1970.
  • Bryan, Martin. "A study of the speaking of William Howard Taft in the 1908 Presidential campaign." Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1953.
  • Burton, David H. and A. E. Campbell, eds. The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Four Aspects of Civic Duty, and Present Day Problems. Volume 1. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.
  • Burton, David H., ed. The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Political Issues and Outlooks: Speeches Delivered Between August 1908 and February 1909. Volume 2. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.
  • Burton, David H., ed. The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential Addresses and State Papers. Volume 3. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002.
  • Burton, David H., ed. The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential Messages to Congress. Volume 4. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002.
  • Burton, David H. The Learned Presidency: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988.
  • Burton, David H. Taft, Holmes, and the 1920s Court. Danvers, Mass.: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1998.
  • Burton, David H. William Howard Taft in the Public Service. Malabar, FL: R. E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1986.
  • Butt, Archibald W. Taft and Roosevelt; the intimate letters of Archie Butt. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press [1971].
  • Carnegie, Andrew. Peace versus war: the President's solution. New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1910. [Reprinted with permission from the Century magazine, June, 1910].
  • Cash, James. Unsung heroes: Ohioans in the White House: a modern appraisal.  Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 1998.
  • Chavez, Mark A. Brick Walks: William Howard Taft National Historical Site: Cincinnati, Ohio. Omaha: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office, Planning and Resource Preservation, 1988.
  • Coletta, Paolo E. The Presidency of William Howard Taft. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1973.
  • Coletta. Paolo E. William Howard Taft: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1989.
  • Cotton, Edward Howe. William Howard Taft, a character study. Boston: The Beacon Press, Inc., 1932.
  • A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. New York: Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1917.
  • Currie, David P. "The Constitution in the Supreme Court: 1921-1930." 1986 Duke Law Journal 65 (1986).
  • Cushman, Clare, ed. "William Howard Taft." The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-1995. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Supreme Court Historical Society, 1995.
  • Danelski, David J. "A Supreme Court Justice Steps Down." 54 Yale Law Journal 411 (1965).
  • Danelski, David J. "The Chief Justice and the Supreme Court." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1961.
  • Davis, Oscar K. William Howard Taft, the Man of the Hour; his biography and his views on the great questions of the day . . . . Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler Company, 1908.
  • Duffy, Herbert S. William Howard Taft. New York: Milton, Balch, & Company, 1930.
  • Dunn, Robert Lee. William Howard Taft, American. Boston: The Chapple Pub. Co., ltd. [c1908].
  • Foraker, Joseph Benson. Correspondence with President Taft. S. l.: s. n., ca. 1912. [Pamphlet located in Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati, Ohio.]
  • Fowles, Henry. The Life and Times of William Howard Taft. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
  • Frankfurter, Felix and James M. Landis. The Business of the Supreme Court. New York: Macmillan, 1927.
  • Fish, Peter G. "William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes: Conservative Politicians as Chief Judicial Reformers." Supreme Court Review (1975): 123-145.
  • Greve, Charles T. "Personal Reminiscences of Chief Justice Howard Taft." 35 Commercial Law Review 282 (1930).
  • Hahn, Harlan. "President Taft and the Discipline of Patronage." 28 Journal of Politics 368 (1966).
  • Hale, F. Dennis. "Buckeye Barristers Dominate the U. S. Supreme Court." 14 Ohio Lawyer 34 (2000).
  • Haley, P. Edward. Revolution and intervention: the diplomacy of Taft and Wilson with Mexico, 1910-1917. Cambridge: M. I. T. Press [1970].
  • Hess, Stephen. "Big Bill Taft." American Heritage 17 (1966): 33-37, 82-86.
  • Hicks, Frederick C. William Howard Taft, Yale Professor of Law and New Haven Citizen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1945.
  • Hollister, Howard C. "William H. Taft at the Bar and on the Bench." 20 Green Bag 337 (1908).
  • Horstman, Barry M. 100 Who Made A Difference: Greater Cincinnatians Who Made a Mark on the 20th Century. Cincinnati; The Cincinnati Post, 1999, 108-113.
  • Hugenberg, Joyce A. William Howard Taft and Organized Labor. Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1965.
  • Hughes, Charles E. "Proceeding in Memory of Chief Justice Taft." 285 U.S. xxviii (1931).
  • Judson, Frederick Newton. The labor decisions of Judge Taft [Columbus: s. n., 1907].
  • Kelly, Frank K. The Fight for the White House; the story of 1912. New York: Crowell, [1961].
  • Kullnick, Max. Prääsident Taft, von Max Kullnick; mit drei abbildungen und einer karte. Berlin: E.S. Mittler und Sohn, 1909.
  • Kuntler, Stanley I. "Chief Justice Taft and the Delusion of Judicial Exactness--A Study in Jurisprudence." 48 Virginia Law Review 1407 (1962).
  • Kuntler, Stanley I. "Chief Justice Taft, National Regulation, and the Commerce Clause." Journal of American History 51 (1965): 651-668.
  • Kuntler, Stanley I. "Chief Justice Taft, Judicial Unanimity and Labor: The Coronado Case." The Historian 24 (1961): 68-83.
  • Kuntler, Stanley I. "The Judicial Philosophy of Chief Justice Taft and Organized Labor, 1921-1930." Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1960.
  • Kuntler, Stanley I. "Labor, the Clayton Act, and the Supreme Court." 3 Labor History 19 (1962).
  • Larson Robert W. "Taft, Roosevelt, and New Mexico Statehood." 45 Mid-America 99 (1963).
  • Lax, Michael J., ed., The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States 1789-1985. Atlantic City, N.J.: American Inheritance Press, 1985.
  • Low, A. Maurice. "William Howard Taft." 1 Yale Review 349 (1912).
  • McBee, Silas. The South and Mr. Taft. Sewanee, Tenn.: University Press at the University of the South [1908].
  • McGowan, Carl. "Perspectives of Taft's Tenure as Chief Justice and Their Special Relevance Today." 55 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1143 (1987).
  • McHale, Francis. President and Chief Justice: The Life and Public Services of William Howard Taft. 1931. Reprint. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.
  • McHargue, Daniel S. "President Taft's Appointments to the Supreme Court." 12 Journal of Politics 478 (1950).
  • Manners, William. TR and Will; a Friendship That Split the Republican Party. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1969].
  • Marburg, Theodore, ed. Taft Papers on League of Nations. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1920.
  • Mason, Alpheus Thomas. "Chief Justice Taft at the Helm." 18 Vanderbilt Law Review 367 (1964).
  • Mason, Alpheus Thomas. "The Labor Decisions of Chief Justice Taft." 78 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 585 (1930).
  • Mason, Alpheus Thomas. "President by Chance, Chief Justice by Choice." 55 American Bar Association Journal 35 (1969).
  • Mason, Alpheus Thomas. The Supreme Court from Taft to Burger. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
  • Mason, Alpheus Thomas. William Howard Taft, Chief Justice. 1964. Reprint. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1983.
  • Mason, Alpheus Thomas. "William Howard Taft," in The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions, 5 vols., eds., Leon Friedman and Fred L. Israel. 1969. Reprint. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.
  • Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of War Containing the Reports of the Taft Commission. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901.
  • Minger, Ralph E. "Taft's Missions to Japan: A Study in Personal Diplomacy." Pacific Historical Review 30 (1961): 279-294.
  • Minger, Ralph E. William Howard Taft and United States Foreign Policy: The Apprenticeship Years, 1900-1908. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
  • Minger, Ralph E. "William Howard Taft's Forgotten Visit to Russia." Russian Review 22 (1963) 149-156.
  • Morris, Jeffrey B. "What Heaven Must Be Like: William Howard Taft as Chief Justice, 1921-1930." 1983 Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 80 (1983).
  • Murphy, Walter F. "Chief Justice Taft and the Lower Court Bureaucracy: A Study in Judicial Administration." 24 Journal of Politics 453 (1962).
  • Murphy, Walter F. "In His Own Image: Mr. Justice Taft and Supreme Court Appointment." 1961 Supreme Court Review 159 (1961).
  • Murphy, Walter F. "Marshalling the Court: Leadership, Bargaining, and the Judicial Process." 29 University of Chicago Law Review 640 (1992).
  • Murphy, Walter F. Wiretapping on Trial: A Case Study in the Judicial Process. New York: Random House, 1965.
  • Nash, Frederick W. "Governor Taft in the Phillipines." 1903. [article found in a journal of Isaac C. Clinton]
  • O'Connor, Sandra Day. "William Howard Taft and the Importance of Unanimity." 28 Journal of Supreme Court History 157-164 (2003). [This article was given as the Supreme Court Historical Society's Annual Lecture, June 3, 2002.]
  • Painter, Mark P. William Howard Taft:  President and Chief Justice (Jarndyce & Jarndyce Press), which was published in September 2004.
  • Patterson, Raymond Albert. Taft's Training for the Presidency. Boston: The Chapple Press, 1908.
  • Phillips, Harry, ed. History of the Sixth Circuit. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1977, 66-68.
  • Post, Robert C. "Chief Justice William Howard Taft and the Concept of Federalism." 9 Constitutional Commentary 199 (1992).
  • Post, Robert C. "Judicial Management and Judicial Disinterest: The Achievements and Perils of Chief Justice William Howard Taft." 1998 (1) Journal of Supreme Court History 50 (1998).
  • Post, Robert C. "Mr. Taft Becomes Chief Justice." 76 University of Cincinnati Law Review 761 (2008).
  • Pringle, Henry Fowles. The Life and Times of William Howard Taft: A Biography. 2 vols. 1939. Reprint. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1986.
  • "Proceedings in Memory of Chief Justice Taft." 285 U.S. v (1932).
  • Ragan, Allen E. Chief Justice Taft.  Columbus, OH: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1938.
  • Ragan, Allen E. "William Howard Taft and the Separation of Church and State in the Philippines." Ph.D. diss., Northern Illinois University, 1979.
  • Renstrom, Peter G. The Taft Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. ABC-CLIO Supreme Court Handbooks. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2003.
  • Report of the United States Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War for the period from December 1, 1900 to October 15, 1901. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901.
  • Reuter, Frank R. "William Howard Taft and the Separation of Church and State in the Philippines." Journal of Church and State 24 (1982): 105-117.
  • Roebuck, James R. "The United States and East Asia, 1909-1913: A Study of the Far Eastern Diplomacy of William Howard Taft." Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1977.
  • Ross, Isabel. An American Family: The Tafts, 1678 to 1964. 1964. Reprint. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977.
  • Scholes, Walter Vinton and Marie V. Scholes. The Foreign Policies of the Taft Administration. Columbia: University of Missouri Press [c1970].
  • Schultz, L. Peter. "William Howard Taft: A Constitutionalist's View of the Presidency." Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1977.
  • Schultz L. Peter. "William Howard Taft: A Constitutionalist's View of the Presidency." Presidential Studies Quarterly 9 (1979): 402-414.
  • Severn, Bill. William Howard Taft. The President Who Became Chief Justice. New York: David McKay, Inc., 1970.
  • Sharp, Allen. "Presidents as Supreme Court Advocates: Before and After the White House." 28 Journal of Supreme Court History 135-138 (2003).
  • Smith, Dean. "Three Hundred Pounds of Solid Charity: William Howard Taft." American History Illustrated 11 (1976): 10-17.
  • Solvick, Stanley D. "The Pre-Presidential Political and Economic thought of William Howard Taft." Northwest Ohio Quarterly 43 (1971): 87-97.
  • Spring, Samuel. "Two Chief Justices: Edward Douglas White and William Howard Taft." Review of Reviews 64 (1921): 161-170.
  • Starr, Kenneth W. "William Howard Taft: The Chief Justice as Judicial Architect." 60 University of Cincinnati Law Review 963 (1992).
  • Steamer, Robert J. Chief Justice: leadership and the Supreme Court. Columbia, S. C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1986.
  • "Taft and the Supreme Court." 24 The New Republic 209 (1920).
  • Taft, Charles P. "My Father the Chief Justice." Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook (1977): 5-10.
  • Taft, Helen Herron. Recollections of Full Years. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914.
  • Thompson, Charles Willis. Presidents I've Known and Two Near Presidents. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill [c1929].
  • U. S. War Department. Special Report of William H. Taft, Secretary of War to the President, on the Philippines. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1908.
  • Umbreit, Kenneth Bernard. Our Eleven Chief Justices: A History of the Supreme Court in Terms of Their Personalities. New York: Harper, 1938.
  • Urofsky, Melvin I., ed. "William Howard Taft." In The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1994.
  • Vivian, James. Collected editorials, 1917-1921. New York: Praeger, 1990.
  • Walker, Albert Henry. President Taft and the railroads : a historical sketch. [New York : s. n., 1912].
  • Warren, Earl. "Chief Justice William Howard Taft." 67 Yale Law Journal 353 (1958).
  • Warren, Winslow. Governor Taft in the Philippines : a review of his evidence given before the Senate Committee on the Philippines. Boston: Allied Printing, [1902].
  • Washburn, Mabel Thatcher Rosemary. Ancestry of William Howard Taft. New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company [c1908].
  • Wessel, Thomas R. "Republican Justice: The Department of Justice under Roosevelt and Taft, 1901-1903." Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1922.
  • White, William. The Taft Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954.
  • Wilensky, Norman M. Conservatives in the Progressive era; the Taft Republicans of 1912. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1965.
  • "William Howard Taft, A Biography." From Revolution to Reconstruction - an .HTML project. © 1994- 2005. All rights reserved. Department of Humanities Computing.
  • Williams, C. Dickerman. "Taft's Clerk." 1989 Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 40 (1989).
  • Withers, John L. "The Administrative Theories and Practices of William Howard Taft." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1957.
 
Writings and Speeches
  • Address--American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, New Willard, Washington, D.C., December 17, 1910. [Copy located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.]
  • Address--Boston, Mass., April 25, 1912. [Copy located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.]
  • Address--Chicago Bar, Chicago, Illinois, December 27, 1921. [Copy located in the Taft Papers, Library of Congress.]
  • Address--Dedication of Alphonso Taft Hall, College of Law, University of Cincinnati, 1925. [Copy located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.]
  • Address--"Ethics in Service." Page Lecture Service, 1914, before the Senior Class of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1915]
  • Address--Inauguration of the Philippine Assembly, October 16. 1907. [Copy located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.]
  • Address--Joint Meeting of Brotherhoods in Train Service, Worcester, Mass., April 3, 1910. [Copy located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.]
  • Address--National Issues, August 19, 1907. [Copy located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.]
  • Address--Notification Speech, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 28, 1908. [Copy located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.]
  • Address--Possible and Needed Reforms in the Administration of Justice in the Federal Courts, American Bar Association Annual meeting, San Francisco, August 19, 1922. [Reprinted in 47 Reports of the American Bar Association 250 (1922).]
  • "Address." Proceedings of the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes 1 (1910): 351-357.
  • "Address." Proceedings of the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes 2 (1911): 6-20.
  • Address--"The South and the National Government." North Carolina Society of New York, at the Hotel Astor, December 7, 1908. [Published copy of speech located in the Langsam Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.]
  • Address--Samuel P. Chase Memorial, Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 30, 1923. [9 American Bar Association Journal 348 (1923)]
  • Address--Tuskegee Institute, 1906. [Copy located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.]
  • Address--Yale Alumni, New Haven, Connecticut, June 20, 1923. [Copy located in the Taft Papers, Library of Congress.]
  • Anti-trust Act and the Supreme Court. Harper Bros., 1914.
  • "Charges against the Federal Judiciary." 1 Virginia Law Register 389 (1895).
  • "Delays and Defects in the Enforcement of Law in This Country." 70 Albany Law Journal 300 (1908).
  • Four Aspects of Civic Virtue. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.
  • "Inaugural Address, March 4, 1909." In The Inaugural Addresses of the American Presidents. Annotated by Davis Newton Lott, 189-197. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961.
  • "The Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court Under the Act of February 13, 1925." 9 American Bar Association Journal 348 (1923); 35 Yale Law Journal 1 (1925).
  • Liberty Under Law, An Interpretation of the Principle of Our Constitutional Government. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922.
  • Memoires and Opinions. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1952.
  • Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. [Part of a Columbia University lectures in 1915. Published May, 1916 and reprinted January, 1925.]
  • The Philippines: Civil Government in the Philippines. New York: The Outlook Company, 1902. [Located in the Langsam Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.]
  • Political Parties in the Philippines. Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1902.
  • Popular Government; Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1903. Reprint, 1914.
  • Present Day Problems. Freport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1967.
  • The Presidency. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
  • The President and His Powers. With an introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
  • "Proceedings on the Death of Chief Justice White." 257 U.S. xxiv (1921).
  • "Recent Criticism of the Federal Judiciary." American Bar Association Journal 237 (1895). [Copy located in the Sixth Circuit Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.]
  • Representative Government in the United States. New York: The New York University Press, 1912.
  • "Retirement of Mr. Justice Day." 260 U.S. IX (1922).
  • "Retirement of Mr. Justice Pitney." 261 U.S. V (1922).
  • "Right of Private Property." 3 Michigan Law Journal 215 (1894).
  • "Salmon P. Chase Memorial." 35 Yale Law Journal 1 (1925).
  • "State of the Union Messages." In The State of the Union Messages of the Presidents, 1790-1966. Vol. 3, ed., Fred L. Israel, 2338-2486. New York: Chelsea House, 1966.
  • "The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth District." Bench and Bar of Ohio. Vol. 2. Chicago: Century Pub. & Engraving Co., 1897, 12-23.
  • The United States and Peace. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914.
  • "Washington: Its Beginning, Its Growth, and Its Future." National Geographic Magazine, March, 1915. 
  • "What is the Function of the Supreme Court in the American Government?" 6 Proceedings of the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes 92 (1916).
  • World Peace; a Written Debate Between William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1970.