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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
I want to thank you for saving me time by rating the multiple biographies of Presidents. Based on your highest rated recommendation I started with Washington through Jackson.
Then I decided to go in reverse but have no interest in Obamas biographies of himself, I did read So Help Me God by Pence to better understand Trump, and have read Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon and now in Caro’s multi volume series, as you said a fascinating and entertaining personality.
i believe the American public , citizens and immigrants and interested readers in other countries deserve the detail of Caro’s approach to a biography. I love it! The detailed diversion to explain Sam Rayburn is a wonderful foundation to understand Johnson’s future actions.
please read and rate King George (1776), Napoleon, The French Revolution, next tier Politicians below the Presidents that were supremely consequential in American History such as Sam Rayburn, and any other key people in history from your perspective, Calvin-Luther-Wesley, and more.
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Hail to the Chief Justice
Jeffrey Rosen, William Howard Taft (2018).
A bellicose politician is on the warpath. His target: the judiciary. On the stump, he mocks individual judges by name and castigates their rulings. The courts, he declares, should not stand in the way of the needs of the public, much less the energetic executive committed to bringing those needs to fruition. Faced with a hostile Congress, a shortage of judges, and no traditional avenue for self-advocacy, the courts are poorly equipped to respond to these attacks on their own. They need a champion on the outside who can make a case against popular passion and for the rule of law.
The story feels conspicuously modern, but it dates back more than a century. The populist demagogue? Theodore Roosevelt. The champion of the judiciary and the rule of law? William Howard Taft.
Jeffrey Rosen’s new biography of Taft, part of the Times Books “American Presidents” series, is a well-timed salve for our unsettling era. As Rosen explains, unlike Roosevelt—and more recent Presidents—Taft embraced “a constitutional rather than a popular conception of the presidency,” and approached his executive responsibilities with a “judicial temperament.” He showed deep-seated respect for the constitutional prerogatives of the coordi