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Born in Civil War-era Cincinnati in 1857, William Howard Taft rose
rapidly through legal, judicial, and political ranks, graduating
from Yale and becoming a judge while still in his twenties. In
1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft to head a
commission charged with preparing the Philippines for US-led civil
government, setting the stage for Taft's involvement in
US-Philippine relations and the development of his imperial vision
across two decades. While biographies of Taft and histories of
US-Philippine relations are easy to find, few works focus on Taft's
vision for the Philippines that, despite a twenty-year crusade,
would eventually fail. William Howard Taft and the Philippines
fills this void in the scholarship, taking up Taft's vantage point
on America's imperialist venture in the Philippine Islands between
1900 and 1921. Adam D. Burns traces Taft's course through six
chapters, beginning with his years in the islands and then
following it through his tenure as President Roosevelt's secretary
of war, his term as president of the United States, and his life
after departing the White House. Across these years Taft continued
his efforts to forge a lasting imperial bond and prevent Philippine
independence. Grounded in extensive primary source research,
William Howard Taft and the Philippines is an engaging work that
will interest scholars of Philippine history, American foreign
policy, imperialism, the American presidency, the Progressive Era,
and more.
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